This document serves as a supplement to the brief “Student Parents Combine Studying, Working, and Public Programs to Support Their Families While in School.” Below are data tables showing undergraduate and graduate student parents’ employment patterns, rates of living in poverty and families with low incomes, family work arrangements, and program participation rates for every state and the District of Columbia. Estimates are derived from the American Community Survey 2021-2023 as well as the American Community Survey Supplemental Poverty Research Files.
All estimates are weighted to be representative at the state level. For some states with smaller populations (e.g., Vermont, the District of Columbia), the unweighted number of undergraduate student parents across 2021-2023 was small (i.e., less than 70), and thus estimates based on these numbers should be interpreted with some caution.
This is the appendix to the third brief in a series available on the resource page Meeting Student Parents' Basic Needs.