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Children by household head’s educational attainment, 2008-2012 and 2016-2020 in the United States

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Children by household head’s educational attainment, 2008-2012 and 2016-2020

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Definitions: The share of all children under age 18 living in households by the head of household’s educational attainment.

Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 5-year American Community Survey, 2008-2012 and 2016-2020

Footnotes: Updated July 2022.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
  Children by household head’s educational attainment, 2008-2012 and 2016-2020.