Another research question related to variations in educational attainment of teen
mothers and non-teen mothers by ethnic groups. The ethnic make up of the respondents
is as follows for teen mothers: White 46.4%, Black 44.5% and others 9.1 %. The ethnic
make up for non-teen mothers: White70.6%, Black 23.6% and others 5.8%. The
analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to examine the educational attainment for teen
mothers and non-teen mothers by ethnic groups (Table 3). The results indicated that a
difference does exist in the educational attainment of teen mothers (F = 11.269; p = .005)
and non-teen mothers (F = 13.437; p = .005) by ethnic groups. Black teen mothers had
higher levels of education, with 12.05 years as compared to White teen mothers, who had
11.61 years of education. The non-teen mothers group had a mean education of 13.42
years for Blacks and 13.60 years for Whites.
This study also investigated the educational attainment of the two groups (teen
mothers and non-teen mothers) by their current region of residence. Results of one-way
ANOVA did not indicate a statistically significant difference between region of residence
and educational attainment in both, teen group (F = 2.204; p = .086) and non-teen group
(F = 2.91 ;p = .033) table 5.