Table 22-2 Percentage of 1988 8th-graders with selected characteristics who had completed a bachelor's or higher degree by 2000

¹Quartile rankings are based on the student's mathematics achievement test score in 8th grade.

²The SES variable has five equally weighted, standardized components: father's education, mother's education, family income, father's occupation, and mother's occupation.

³Risk factors, measured in 8th grade, were living in a single-parent household; having a low-income family; having parents who had not graduated from high school; having an older sibling who dropped out of school; spending 3 or more hours alone at home after school per day; and having limited English proficiency.

⁴Quartile rankings are based on the student's mathematics achievement test score in 8th grade.

NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), "Fourth Follow-up, 2000."