Table 15 B. Community Services by Economic Characteristics:                                  30
Households with Children Under 18 with No Children in School, Satisfactory Public Schools,
Preference for Different School for a Child, and Children Eating Enough, 1998
Numbers in thousands

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|Characteristics           |          |            |Satisfactory|   Prefer   |  Children  |
|                          |          |No children |   public   | different  |   eating   |
|                          |          | in school  |  schools   |   school   |   enough   |
|                          |  Total   |------------+------------+------------+------------|
|                          |Households|  Percent   |  Percent   |  Percent   |  Percent   |
|--------------------------+----------+------------+------------+------------+------------|
|Households with children  |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Total                   |    38,312|        10.2|        87.0|        17.7|        98.0|
|Household income quintile |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Lowest quintile         |     5,121|        11.3|        88.1|        19.4|        95.9|
|  2nd quintile            |     6,398|        10.1|        87.1|        19.5|        97.2|
|  3rd quintile            |     7,915|        11.1|        86.6|        17.1|        98.2|
|  4th quintile            |     9,111|         9.7|        86.7|        17.0|        99.1|
|  Highest quintile        |     9,767|         9.4|        86.9|        16.5|        99.4|
|Household poverty         |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Income below poverty    |     5,397|        10.2|        88.5|        19.1|        92.9|
|  Income above poverty    |    32,914|        10.2|        86.7|        17.4|        98.7|
|Education of householder  |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Not high school graduate|     5,604|         7.6|        90.4|        16.5|        95.8|
|  High school graduate    |    11,850|        10.3|        87.5|        18.3|        97.8|
|  Some college            |    11,845|         9.6|        85.9|        18.4|        98.2|
|  Bachelors or higher     |     9,012|        12.5|        85.7|        16.5|        99.5|
|Occupation of householder |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Executive               |     4,700|         8.6|        86.3|        17.5|        99.1|
|  Professional            |     4,695|        11.7|        84.5|        16.5|        99.3|
|  Technical               |     1,091|         9.9|        87.3|        17.0|        99.3|
|  Sales                   |     3,363|        12.6|        87.0|        17.3|        98.5|
|  Administrative support  |     4,254|        10.0|        85.3|        17.9|        97.3|
|  Service                 |     4,000|        10.1|        87.5|        19.1|        96.1|
|  Farm                    |       833|         8.1|        92.4|        10.9|        97.0|
|  Craft                   |     4,328|        10.3|        87.4|        17.0|        98.2|
|  Labor                   |     5,089|         9.8|        88.6|        18.9|        97.3|
|Region                    |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Northeast               |     7,052|        10.3|        87.4|        18.1|        98.1|
|  Midwest                 |     9,068|        10.5|        87.9|        17.4|        98.8|
|  South                   |    13,446|         9.1|        87.0|        16.4|        97.8|
|  West                    |     8,745|        11.6|        85.7|        19.5|        97.1|
|Metropolitan status       |          |            |            |            |            |
|  Central City            |     5,467|        16.2|        88.1|        17.9|        96.7|
|  Metropolitan, outside   |          |            |            |            |            |
|  central city            |    27,369|         9.5|        86.7|        17.8|        98.1|
|  Non-metropolitan        |     5,476|         7.7|        87.1|        16.7|        98.3|
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Survey of Income and Program Participation, 1996 Panel, Wave 8
 . Represents or rounds to zero.