Micro data on parental education

Question

I am looking for a dataset that contains data about mother's education and father's education for adults (data just for kids I've found to be not sufficient). I am writing my Thesis about effects of the parental education on an individual's education and how it varies, so I would love to has the data for various low and middle-income countries. Do you know, where can I find it?

P.S. DHS program should contain those variables in older releases( manual - see page 111), but I found only data for Mother's education there (Household members recode).

Answer 1

i believe all of these microdata sets have education of both parents and children, although some of them are limited to parent-child while they are co-habiting.

international:

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/program%20for%20international%20student%20assessment%20%28pisa%29

has education level of parents, for example HISCED on pdf page 244 https://pisa2012.acer.edu.au/downloads/M_stu_codebook.pdf#page=244

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/programme%20for%20the%20international%20assessment%20of%20adult%20competencies%20%28piaac%29

also has it, for example see pdf page 1492, www.oecd.org/site/piaac/codebook_synthetic.pdf#page=1492

within the united states:

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/current%20population%20survey%20%28cps%29

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/survey%20of%20income%20and%20program%20participation%20%28sipp%29

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/national%20longitudinal%20study%20of%20adolescent%20to%20adult%20health%20%28addhealth%29

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/national%20longitudinal%20surveys%20%28nls%29

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/youth%20risk%20behavior%20surveillance%20system%20%28yrbss%29

http://www.asdfree.com/search/label/panel%20study%20of%20income%20dynamics%20%28psid%29

Answer 2

National Center for Education Statistics by DOE has reports with data like this, and I've seen at least one International section header, so there's at least some non-US data there.
http://nces.ed.gov/

PubMed is "a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)" and it also has some of this data.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/