Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Guttmacher Institute, Pew Research Center has analyzed several decades of information on abortion in the U.S., including the number and rate of abortions over time and the demographics of women who have experienced the procedure.
Among women with at least a master’s degree, 60 percent have had two or more children, up from 51 percent in 1994. The share with two children has risen 4 percentage points, while the share with three or more has risen 6 percentage points.
In 2012, 71 percent of women high school graduates had enrolled in some type of postsecondary education program by October of that year. For men the rate was 61 percent. The gender gap is even larger for Hispanics and African Americans.
For the first time in history, in 2012 the number of women who married men who had less education than they did, exceeded the number of men who married women with less education.
