Table 2.
Descriptive Statistics of Individual-Level Variables
| Education % | Parental Education % | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Female % |
Employed % |
Less Than High School |
High School | College | Less Than High School |
High School | College | Missing | N |
| Belgium | 53.6 | 84.8 | 16.9 | 32.1 | 51.0 | 44.8 | 26.2 | 21.9 | 7.1 | 420 |
| Canada | 58.0 | 68.4 | 26.8 | 35.0 | 38.2 | 49.2 | 25.5 | 19.0 | 6.3 | 922 |
| Chile | 56.0 | 57.2 | 54.8 | 25.6 | 19.6 | 73.1 | 14.1 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 925 |
| Czech Republic | 60.1 | 75.9 | 37.5 | 43.0 | 19.6 | 42.5 | 37.8 | 16.8 | 2.9 | 619 |
| Denmark | 49.5 | 78.0 | 16.5 | 53.5 | 30.0 | 24.3 | 49.2 | 26.1 | 0.4 | 701 |
| Finland | 50.7 | 77.6 | 13.1 | 59.4 | 27.6 | 40.7 | 31.1 | 26.0 | 2.2 | 588 |
| Germany | 59.4 | 63.2 | 54.7 | 27.6 | 17.7 | 70.5 | 11.0 | 10.4 | 8.1 | 492 |
| Great Britain | 58.6 | 71.2 | 48.7 | 24.0 | 27.4 | 68.9 | 6.4 | 13.5 | 11.3 | 914 |
| Hungary | 55.6 | 67.2 | 20.8 | 64.6 | 14.7 | 42.7 | 44.4 | 10.3 | 2.6 | 457 |
| Ireland | 55.0 | 65.3 | 46.3 | 32.8 | 20.9 | 70.6 | 13.3 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 473 |
| Italy | 57.5 | 71.9 | 34.8 | 49.7 | 15.5 | 72.3 | 19.4 | 8.1 | 0.1 | 690 |
| Netherlands | 54.9 | 76.0 | 29.2 | 40.4 | 30.4 | 56.3 | 23.3 | 17.5 | 2.9 | 730 |
| New Zealand | 59.6 | 70.4 | 45.6 | 26.9 | 27.6 | 46.5 | 13.6 | 25.4 | 14.5 | 722 |
| Norway | 51.9 | 81.1 | 9.9 | 40.2 | 49.9 | 24.9 | 42.9 | 30.2 | 2.1 | 676 |
| Poland | 51.8 | 69.1 | 56.1 | 26.2 | 17.7 | 72.1 | 16.4 | 9.9 | 1.7 | 599 |
| Slovenia | 54.9 | 89.1 | 22.6 | 56.8 | 20.7 | 47.7 | 39.4 | 10.4 | 2.4 | 576 |
| Sweden | 50.7 | 75.2 | 10.8 | 59.9 | 29.3 | 47.3 | 26.7 | 23.5 | 2.6 | 499 |
| Switzerland | 53.6 | 76.2 | 5.9 | 63.8 | 30.3 | 23.3 | 54.9 | 19.8 | 2.0 | 845 |
| USA | 55.4 | 79.7 | 17.1 | 39.0 | 44.0 | 15.1 | 44.4 | 34.5 | 6.0 | 498 |
| Total | 55.3 | 73.0 | 30.6 | 41.4 | 28.0 | 49.6 | 27.9 | 17.6 | 4.9 | 12,346 |
Source: 1994–98 International Adult Literacy Survey.