. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Learn Individ Differ. 2013 Feb 13;25:12–20. doi: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.01.015

Table A2.

Distribution of Parental Educational Attainment (Mean of Maternal and Paternal Educational Attainment).

Education Category	Proportion of Sample
1.00 (Less Than 5^th Grade)	.7%
1.50	.4%
2.00 (Less Than High School Diploma)	4.7%
2.50	6.5%
3.00 (High School Graduate)	22.2%
3.50	15.8%
4.00 (Some College)	18.8%
4.50	11.4%
5.00 (Bachelors Degree and Above)	19.5%

Note. Educational attainment was measured for each parent on a 1–5 integer scale. However, because educational attainment for mothers and fathers was averaged for the purposes for the current paper, educational attainment took on half-point values as well.