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Indicator 7: Timing of Parenthood

Table 7. Percentage distribution of 1988 male and female eighth-graders, by timing of parenthood and selected individual characteristics: 2000
	Female				Male
Characteristic	Total	No child	Child in high school¹	Child after high school²	Total	No child	Child in high school¹	Child after high school²
Highest level of educational attainment, 2000
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
High school dropout	7.1	5.4	29.4	6.5	8.7	6.2	35.4	9.6
High school completion	14.4	11.3	13.6	19.9	19.2	13.0	26.1	30.2
Some college	30.0	23.9	43.0	38.2	30.1	32.1	18.6	38.3
Earned certificate or license	9.8	8.0	8.0	13.5	8.6	5.7	11.4	7.9
Earned associate's degree	6.9	7.0	3.8	7.4	6.6	7.2	4.9	4.9
Earned bachelor's degree or higher	32.3	44.4	2.2	14.6	26.9	35.8	3.6	9.1
Employment status, 2000
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Not working	19.2	14.8	19.7	26.9	7.9	8.3	10.5	7.4
Working part time	11.7	10.6	5.9	16.3	7.1	8.7	5.7	4.0
Working full time	69.1	74.7	74.4	56.8	85.0	83.0	83.9	88.5
Marital status, 2000
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Not married	47.0	56.5	28.5	28.7	60.7	71.4	41.8	29.2
Married	53.0	43.5	71.5	71.3	39.3	28.6	58.2	70.8
¹Also includes eighth-grade students.
²Child born between June 1992 (graduation date for most students) and 2000.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), 'Fourth Follow-up, 2000,' unpublished data.