Living Conditions Survey (LCS) 
Intergenerational transmission of poverty
Adults aged 25 to 59 by nationality of the mother and educational level attained
Units: Total adults (thousands) and vertical percentages

	Total	Spanish (mother)	Foreign (European Union) (mother)	Foreign (Rest of Europe) (mother)	Foreign (Rest of the world) (mother)	No data recorded	
Total	24,317.1	20,413.5	1,130.0	144.6	2,453.2	175.9	
Primary education or lower	18.3	17.0	13.7	4.4	30.8	32.7	
Secondary Education (First stage)	25.0	26.3	16.2	9.8	19.0	20.3	
Secondary Education (Second stage)	24.2	22.5	44.0	33.4	27.7	28.3	
Higher education	32.5	34.1	26.0	52.4	22.2	17.8	
No data recorded	0.1	0.0	..	..	0.4	0.9	
Notes:
1) ~'educational level attained'~Primary education or lower: Includes illiterate
 Secondary Education (First stage): Includes training and job placement
 Secondary Education (Second stage): Includes training and job placement (included that requiring Secondary Education Graduate qualification) 
 Higher education: Includes training and job placement
1) In order to elaborate this table, we have taken into account the nowadays situation of adults aged 25 to 59 years old and that of  their parents or their household when they were teenagers.
 'Father' means the man that the respondent used to consider his father when he was a teenager.
 'Mother' means the woman that the respondent used to consider his mother when he was a teenager.
Source: National Statistics Institute