Table 1.
Overview of intergenerational educational mobility among males and females, The Netherlands 2009
| Males | Females | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destination | ||||||||
| Origin | Low | Medium | High | Total | Low | Medium | High | Total |
| Low | 361 | 341 | 142 | 844 | 347 | 414 | 126 | 887 |
| Medium | 68 | 220 | 137 | 425 | 68 | 324 | 172 | 564 |
| High | 17 | 112 | 171 | 300 | 18 | 103 | 199 | 320 |
| Total | 446 | 673 | 450 | 1569 | 433 | 841 | 497 | 1771 |
Immobile individuals on diagonals (bold), downwardly mobile individuals below diagonals, upwardly mobile individuals above diagonals
Using the International Standard Classification of Education 2011, educational level is classified into three categories: (i) low (categories 1–2), (ii) medium (categories 3–4), and (iii) high (categories 6–8)