Table 1.
Observed Completed Fertility by Education
| All | < High School |
High School |
Some College |
College | Ratio of < High School to College |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whites | ||||||
| Intended births | 1.36 | 1.38 | 1.36 | 1.35 | 1.34 | 1.03 |
| Mistimed births | .42 | .56 | .55 | .43 | .23 | 2.39 |
| Unwanted births | .08 | .13 | .10 | .07 | .04 | 3.30 |
| Total births | 1.85 | 2.06 | 2.01 | 1.86 | 1.61 | 1.28 |
| N | 2,029 | 123 | 819 | 490 | 597 | |
| Blacks | ||||||
| Intended births | .94 | 1.27 | .96 | .86 | .85 | 1.49 |
| Mistimed births | .83 | 1.15 | .93 | .78 | .48 | 2.39 |
| Unwanted births | .40 | .84 | .41 | .39 | .14 | 6.24 |
| Total births | 2.18 | 3.26 | 2.30 | 2.04 | 1.47 | 2.22 |
| N | 1,197 | 116 | 504 | 391 | 186 | |
Notes: Means are weighted and Ns are unweighted. Sample includes women at last interview, in 2004, ages 39–46. Missing data on birth intention status is imputed based on the observed proportion of intended, mistimed and unwanted by education and race.