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Table 206.60. Among adults 18 years old and over who had children under 18 in the home, percentage reporting having at least one child enrolled in public school, enrolled in private school, or homeschooled, and percentage distribution of children by type of schooling, by selected adult and household characteristics: 2020-21
[Standard errors appear in parentheses]
Selected adult or household characteristic Percent of adults with at least one child in the home, by type of schooling1 Percentage distribution of children in the home,
by type of schooling
Public Private Homeschooled Total Public Private Homeschooled
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Total 88.4   (0.38) 10.0   (0.40) 6.8   (0.35) 100.0   (†) 87.1   (0.44) 7.6   (0.31) 5.4   (0.28)

Sex at birth of respondent
                                         
Male 87.3   (0.67) 11.6   (0.62) 6.5   (0.59) 100.0   (†) 85.7   (0.85) 9.0   (0.50) 5.3   (0.51)
Female 89.2   (0.42) 8.6   (0.43) 7.1   (0.41) 100.0   (†) 88.2   (0.46) 6.4   (0.32) 5.5   (0.33)

Race/ethnicity of respondent
                                         
White 86.7   (0.55) 10.5   (0.55) 7.4   (0.42) 100.0   (†) 85.8   (0.51) 8.1   (0.44) 6.0   (0.39)
Black 90.4   (1.19) 8.5   (1.14) 5.1   (0.82) 100.0   (†) 90.3   (0.99) 5.7   (0.78) 4.0   (0.69)
Hispanic 90.9   (0.96) 8.9   (1.02) 6.5   (1.00) 100.0   (†) 88.1   (1.33) 7.0   (0.91) 4.9   (0.75)
Asian 89.7   (1.23) 14.1   (1.84) 3.6   (0.89) 100.0   (†) 86.9   (1.54) 10.5   (1.30) 2.6   (0.69)
Other2 88.1   (1.79) 7.9   (1.50) 10.6   (1.97) 100.0   (†) 85.5   (1.96) 6.4   (1.38) 8.1   (1.73)

Age of respondent
                                         
18 to 24 87.8   (1.91) 9.3   (1.75) 5.5   (0.99) 100.0   (†) 87.5   (1.85) 8.2   (1.66) 4.2   (0.77)
25 to 29 90.1   (2.50) 6.7 ! (2.16) 6.3   (1.52) 100.0   (†) 88.2   (2.31) 5.1 ! (1.62) 6.7   (1.70)
30 to 39 89.2   (0.82) 8.2   (0.63) 7.4   (0.57) 100.0   (†) 89.0   (0.70) 5.6   (0.48) 5.4   (0.44)
40 to 49 88.6   (0.74) 10.8   (0.73) 6.5   (0.62) 100.0   (†) 87.0   (0.83) 8.0   (0.53) 5.0   (0.54)
50 to 59 87.2   (0.89) 12.9   (1.03) 6.9   (0.89) 100.0   (†) 83.3   (1.44) 11.1   (1.03) 5.6   (0.66)
60 to 64 87.4   (2.65) 8.3   (1.79) 6.8   (2.03) 100.0   (†) 89.2   (2.60) 5.5   (1.29) 5.3 ! (1.86)
65 and over 85.8   (2.01) 10.0   (1.63) 8.8   (1.77) 100.0   (†) 84.9   (2.35) 7.2   (1.22) 7.8   (1.85)

Educational attainment of respondent
                                         
Less than high school
    completion
91.9   (1.65) 7.0   (1.80) 9.6   (2.13) 100.0   (†) 89.2   (2.41) 4.9   (1.33) 5.9   (1.42)
High school completion3 91.3   (0.75) 5.8   (0.69) 6.2   (0.70) 100.0   (†) 90.6   (0.75) 4.3   (0.55) 5.1   (0.61)
Some college or associate's degree 88.9   (0.67) 8.4   (0.68) 7.0   (0.51) 100.0   (†) 87.9   (0.69) 6.5   (0.55) 5.7   (0.42)
Bachelor's degree 85.2   (1.02) 14.6   (1.01) 5.6   (0.49) 100.0   (†) 83.6   (0.98) 11.7   (0.85) 4.8   (0.38)
Graduate degree 81.7   (0.81) 19.5   (0.89) 7.1   (0.68) 100.0   (†) 79.0   (0.84) 15.5   (0.70) 5.5   (0.50)

Age of children in household
                                         
Only children under age 5 69.1   (4.06) 19.4   (3.43) 21.8   (4.39) 100.0   (†) 65.3   (5.04) 16.0   (3.41) 18.7   (3.38)
Only children ages 5 to 11 87.1   (1.13) 9.3   (0.94) 5.5   (0.79) 100.0   (†) 87.3   (1.13) 7.5   (0.80) 5.2   (0.81)
Only children ages 12 to 17 89.4   (0.74) 9.8   (0.73) 4.0   (0.41) 100.0   (†) 88.6   (0.75) 8.3   (0.62) 3.2   (0.33)
Children both ages 5 to 11 and 12 to 17 91.5   (0.80) 9.1   (0.75) 8.9   (0.96) 100.0   (†) 89.1   (0.88) 5.6   (0.48) 5.3   (0.58)
Other 87.2   (1.02) 10.8   (0.85) 9.3   (0.98) 100.0   (†) 82.1   (1.26) 9.4   (0.79) 8.4   (1.00)

Number of enrolled children in household
                                         
One child 86.5   (0.64) 9.0   (0.62) 4.5   (0.44) 100.0   (†) 86.5   (0.64) 9.0   (0.62) 4.5   (0.44)
Two children 84.6   (0.71) 12.3   (0.63) 9.1   (0.70) 100.0   (†) 81.8   (0.78) 10.3   (0.50) 7.9   (0.64)
Three or more children 99.3   (0.30) 7.9   (1.04) 7.8   (0.94) 100.0   (†) 93.0   (0.73) 3.7   (0.54) 3.3   (0.39)

Household income (2020)
                                         
Less than $25,000 92.3   (1.30) 6.1   (1.39) 7.4   (1.41) 100.0   (†) 89.0   (2.00) 5.5   (1.37) 5.5   (0.97)
$25,000 to $49,999 90.6   (1.08) 5.0   (0.75) 8.8   (1.14) 100.0   (†) 90.2   (1.10) 3.4   (0.51) 6.4   (0.87)
$50,000 to $74,999 88.2   (1.10) 8.8   (1.28) 8.6   (0.82) 100.0   (†) 86.8   (1.07) 6.3   (0.85) 7.0   (0.77)
$75,000 to $99,999 90.5   (1.06) 6.1   (0.71) 7.7   (1.23) 100.0   (†) 88.5   (1.32) 4.9   (0.61) 6.6   (1.23)
$100,000 to $149,999 88.1   (1.22) 11.1   (1.14) 5.3   (0.87) 100.0   (†) 87.2   (1.18) 8.6   (0.86) 4.3   (0.83)
$150,000 or more 81.7   (1.18) 19.4   (1.13) 5.5   (0.78) 100.0   (†) 80.8   (1.05) 15.1   (0.89) 4.2   (0.53)
†Not applicable.
!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.
1 Percentages for each type of schooling may sum to more than 100 percent because respondents could report having multiple children enrolled in different types of schooling.
2 Includes persons reporting Pacific Islander alone, persons reporting American Indian/Alaska Native alone, and persons of Two or more races.
3 High school completers include those with a high school diploma as well as those with an alternative credential, such as a GED.
NOTE: Data in this table are considered experimental and do not meet National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) standards for response rates. The 2021 Household Pulse Survey, an experimental data product, is an Interagency Federal Statistical Rapid Response Survey to Measure Household Experiences during the coronavirus pandemic, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in partnership with 16 other federal agencies and offices. The number of respondents and response rate for the period reported in this table are 69,114 and 6.6 percent. The final weights are designed to produce estimates for the total persons age 18 and older living within housing units. These weights were created by adjusting the household level sampling base weights by various factors to account for nonresponse, adults per household, and coverage. For more information, see https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/technical-documentation.html. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, August 18-30, 2021. (This table was prepared February 2022.)

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