The impact of parental income and education on the schooling of their children

Table 1 Sample selection from pooled LFS 1992-2012

	All those aged 16, 17 or 18	Living away from parents	Living with one parent	Living with both parents	Final sample
Age distribution:
% aged 16	23.08	10.34	24.26	23.5	24.01
% aged 17	39.84	29.87	41.12	40.06	39.92
% aged 18	37.09	59.78	34.62	36.44	36.07
% staying on at 16	75.08	50.02	72.37	77.46	78.12
Observations:	56,650	2,581	12,995	41,074	16,798

Note: The following are dropped from the penultimate column to form the final sample in the following sequence: families residing in heavily oversampled Northern Ireland (1,893 observations), families residing in Scotland (3,449), families where the parents were not born in England and Wales but who arrived after finishing their schooling (6,372), very old or very young parents (317), those missing basic demographic information such as date of birth (280), where father is not working (4,004) or self employed (4,353) or unknown (328), union status of father unknown (1,316) or has no or missing reported earnings (1,964).