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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED340748 AUTHOR: Kominski, Robert
TITLE: Educational Attainment in the United States: March
1989 and 1988.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
JOURNAL: Current-Population-Reports; Series P-20 n451 Aug
1991
NOTE: 149 p.; Errata sheet has been incorporated.
AVAILABILITY: Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
ABSTRACT: Data from the Bureau of the Census' March 1988
and 1989 Current Population Surveys (CPS) on the
educational attainment of Americans are provided in 22
tables and 5 graphs. Summary data on the years of school
completed by age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin are shown
for 1988 and 1989 in Table 1. Other detailed data are shown
for 1989 in Tables 2 through 16. Tables 17 and 18 contain
time series of data for selected years collected from 1940
to 1989 in the decennial censuses and CPS (1947-89).
Detailed tabulations of the data are accompanied by a short
discussion of basic trends and attainment levels across
many segments of the population. The detailed tables
present data on years of school completed by persons aged
15 years and over by age, sex, Hispanic origin, marital
status, household relationship, education of spouse, labor
force status, occupation, income, earnings, and region of
residence. Summary data are also presented for states and
large metropolitan areas, with detailed data for the
largest 25 states and 15 metropolitan areas. Over 75% of
all adults age 25 years and over have completed high
school, and over 20% have completed 4 or more years of
college. Educational attainment levels for young adults are
similar to those recorded in the mid-1970s. Among persons
25 years and older, slightly larger proportions of men than
women have completed high school, and larger proportions of
men than women have completed 4 or more years of college.
While Whites 25 years and older have the highest level of
high school completion, persons of races other than Black
or White have the highest college completion level. Both
high school and college completion levels are higher in the
West than in any other region. Two appendices are included,
which provide definitions and explanations, and source and
accuracy of estimates, respectively. The second appendix
contains seven tables. (SLD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Age-Differences; Educational-Attainment;
Educational-Experience; Elementary-Secondary-Education;
Higher-Education; Hispanic-Americans; Income-; Racial
Differences; Sex-Differences; Trend-Analysis; Urban-Areas
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Census-Figures; *Educational-Status
Comparison; *Educational-Trends; *National-Surveys; *Tables
Data
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