Table 1

Maternal age, year of birth and country of origin, and offspring’s year of birth by educational level, all children born in Denmark, 2000–2009

	All children n=649 905	Primary education n=106 129	Vocational education n=222 744	Secondary education n=46 026	Short-cycle and medium-cycle higher education n=185 417	Long-cycle higher education n=94 168	Missing n=15 421
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Maternal age
<25	12.3	32.6	12.2	17.8	3.8	2.3	20.0
25–29	33.5	30.9	37.4	31.2	25.4	26.2	34.6
30–34	36.3	23.0	34.5	32.6	42.1	46.9	28.0
35–39	15.3	11.0	13.8	15.8	16.4	21.1	14.0
≥40	2.6	2.4	2.1	2.6	2.7	3.5	3.4
Maternal year of birth
<1965	4.2	4.1	3.8	4.6	4.3	4.8	4.5
1965–69	16.5	12.3	16.4	17.6	17.0	20.7	12.6
1970–74	33.5	24.0	33.0	32.4	37.6	39.6	24.2
1975–79	30.6	28.8	32.0	27.9	31.8	28.3	31.1
≥1980	15.2	30.8	14.8	17.6	9.8	6.7	27.7
Maternal country of origin
Denmark	86.2	74.7	91.0	77.6	93.2	92.0	10.7
Western countries	3.1	1.3	1.9	3.8	2.6	4.3	26.3
Non-western countries	10.7	24.0	7.2	18.6	4.3	3.7	63.0
Year of birth (offspring)
2000–2001	20.5	24.2	22.3	23.7	17.9	16.0	20.2
2002–2003	19.9	21.1	20.9	22.1	18.8	18.0	14.9
2004–2005	20.0	19.6	20.1	20.1	20.6	20.0	12.6
2006–2007	20.0	18.0	19.1	18.2	21.5	22.2	21.0
2008–2009	19.7	17.1	17.7	15.9	21.2	23.8	31.3