Table 1.
Sample characteristics by decade (unweighted/weighted), children 0–17 years, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1968–2017.
| 1968–77 | 1978–87 | 1988–97 | 1998–2007 | 2008–2017 | ||||||
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| unwtd % | wtd % | unwtd % | wtd % | unwtd % | wtd % | unwtd % | wtd % | unwtd % | wtd % | |
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| Reference person’s educational attainment | ||||||||||
| <High School | 55.1% | 40.4% | 37.7% | 28.8% | 27.2% | 22.8% | 26.5% | 23.8% | 22.8% | 19.2% |
| High School | 27.9% | 31.7% | 36.4% | 35.8% | 37.8% | 35.9% | 34.1% | 30.6% | 31.8% | 30.6% |
| Some College | 9.3% | 13.7% | 14.9% | 18.4% | 19.3% | 19.6% | 21.0% | 20.1% | 24.8% | 23.4% |
| College + | 7.6% | 14.1% | 10.9% | 17.0% | 15.4% | 21.5% | 18.3% | 25.3% | 20.2% | 26.4% |
| Missing | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.5% | 0.4% |
| Reference person’s race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 47.2% | 81.4% | 50.9% | 79.9% | 52.5% | 76.4% | 46.5% | 66.7% | 49.6% | 69.1% |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 48.9% | 14.9% | 45.4% | 16.0% | 42.9% | 18.2% | 40.4% | 15.4% | 40.7% | 16.5% |
| Hispanic | 3.7% | 3.7% | 3.6% | 4.1% | 3.9% | 5.0% | 11.3% | 16.6% | 7.9% | 12.7% |
| Other | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.7% | 0.4% | 1.7% | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1.8% |
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| Person-waves | 70,549 | 60,689 | 63,969 | 30,226 | 31,523 | |||||
| Number of children | 11,975 | 10,548 | 11,643 | 9,482 | 9,865 | |||||