Table 1.
Descriptive Information of the Post-Motherhood Education of NLSY79 Women (N=4,925) 1
| Education at Time of First Child’s Birth
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Less than High School | High School Degree/GED | Associate’s degree Degree | Bachelor’s degree1 | Full Sample | |
| Ever reenrolled in school | 28% | 24% | 26% | --- | 25% |
| Obtained post-motherhood education1 | 43% | 15% | 13% | --- | 17% |
| Education at child age 182 | |||||
| Less than high school | 57% | --- | --- | --- | 7% |
| High school/GED | 37% | 85% | --- | --- | 56% |
| Associate’s degree/some college | 5% | 11% | 87% | --- | 14% |
| Bachelor’s degree | 1% | 4% | 13% | --- | 22% |
| Weighted percent2 | 20% | 55% | 7% | 18% | 100% |
| Raw n2 | 1,088 | 2,145 | 242 | 547 | 4,022 |
Notes:
1
Some estimates based on subsample of women who had less than a Bachelor’s degree at the time of their first child’s birth (N=4,291). Post-motherhood education was not calculated for women who had Bachelor’s degrees at the time of first birth. 2 Estimates based on weighted sample.
2
Raw n’s do not add to 4,925 because it excludes women for whom information on their education at their time of first birth was missing. Estimates of percentages, however, are based on imputed data, and thus, the full analytical sample of 4,925 women.