Table 3 Background questions

What sex were you assigned at birth?

What is your current sex?

What is your age?

What country were you born in? (Used to infer immigrant status.)

Which of the following best describes the highest educational level obtained by your mother?

(1) no formal education, (2) less than 8th grade education, (3) did not graduate from high school, (4) graduated from high school, (5) attended college, but did not earn a degree, (6) earned an associate of arts degree, (7) earned a bachelor’s degree, (8) earned a graduate or professional degree that required additional education beyond a bachelor’s degree

Which of the following best describes the highest educational level obtained by your father? (1) no formal education, (2) less than 8th grade education, (3) did not graduate from high school, (4) graduate from high school, (5) attended college, but did not earn a degree, (6) earned an associate of arts degree, (7) earned a bachelor’s degree, (8) earned a graduate or professional degree that required additional education beyond a bachelor’s degree

Relative to other families in the country where I grew up, my family’s income would be considered:

(1) very low, (2) low, (3) medium, (4) medium high, (5) high