Table 1:

Unweighted descriptive statistics of the main groups of children in the sample

	Immigrant families			U.S. Born families
	STEM	Non-STEM	No College	STEM	Non-STEM	No College
Age (mean)	14.4	14.4	14.5*	14.5*	14.5*	14.5*
Female	48.4	48.5	48.6	48.9*	48.6	48.7
Parental Field of Study
Arts and Humanities	-	12.41	-	-	11.23	-
Business	-	39.10	-	-	34.59	-
Social Sciences	-	32.06	-	-	30.18	-
Other	-	16.42	-	-	23.99	-
Child race
Asian	40.4	21.2*	10.9*	1.3*	1.1*	0.5*
Black	6.4	8.2*	6.3	5.0*	6.3	14.5*
Hispanic	15.3	24.2*	66.2*	6.1*	7.0*	13.1*
White	29.8	37.4*	13.4*	83.7*	81.6*	65.9*
Other	8.1	8.9*	3.2*	3.9*	4.1*	6.1*
First generation	21.2	18.5*	18.7*	-	-	-
English proficient	56.0	61.1*	33.8*	97.0*	96.9*	94.2*
One immigrant parent	39	59.1*	47.5*
Two immigrant parents	61	40.9*	52.5*
Household head from Asia	46.8	26.8*	13.5*
Household head from Europe	12.2	13.2*	5.6*
Household head from other regions	41.0	60.0*	80.9*
Spouse from Asia	46.0	26.8*	11.2*
Spouse from Europe	11.2	13.2*	4.3*
Spouse from other regions	42.8	60.0*	84.5*
Parent with foreign degree	44.4	37.3*	-	-	-	-
Single-parent family	8.4	12.4*	27.5*	14.3*	17.5*	41.9*
Married Household head	92.8	89.2*	75.1*	86.4*	83.4*	60.0*
Female household head	29.2	45.1*	46.6*	41.5*	52.2*	60.1*
Age of household head (Mean)	47.9	47.4*	44.1*	46.8*	46.4*	42.8
At least one parent has a PhD.	12.6	5.7*	0.0	6.5*	3.5	0.0
Family income (Mean)	175,980	145,460*	57,010*	168,990*	153,790*	65,020*
Family size (Mean)	4.4	4.1	4.9*	4.3*	4.2*	4.3*
Delayed progress	3.45	4.36*	8.26*	4.32*	4.62*	9.34
N (%)	43,014 (4.1)	51,591 (5.0)	155,433 (15.0)	102,783 (9.9)	249,753 (24.1)	434,147 (41.9)

^*p<0.05 compared to children in families of immigrant STEM graduates.

Data source: 2013–2017 American Community Survey.