Change Indicator

Children by household head’s educational attainment in United States

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Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

The share of all children under age 18 living in households by the head of household’s educational attainment.

Data Source

Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 through 2019, 2021 American Community Survey.
The data for this measure come from the 2000 and 2001 Supplementary Survey and the 2002 through 2019 American Community Survey (ACS). The 2000 through 2004 ACS surveyed approximately 700,000 households monthly during each calendar year. In general but particularly for these years, use caution when interpreting estimates for less populous states or indicators representing small subpopulations, where the sample size is relatively small. Beginning in January 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau expanded the ACS sample to 3 million households (full implementation), and in January 2006 the ACS included group quarters. The ACS, fully implemented, is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. (Such local-area data have traditionally been collected once every ten years in the long form of the decennial census.)

Notes

Updated December 2022.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
  Children by household head’s educational attainment.

Last Updated

December 2022