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Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007.
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Status AttainmentEducational OutcomesPostsecondary EducationEducational AttainmentHigh SchoolEducationUnited StatesCollege PipelineEducational AdministrationEducational DisadvantagePublic HealthStatisticsFederal Higher Education PolicySarah R. CrisseySocial InequalityPublic PolicyAmerican Community SurveyEducational TestingEducational StatisticsEducational DistrictingHigher EducationSecondary EducationSociologyDemographyEducation PolicyEducation Economics
The 2007 U.S. educational attainment data show that about 27 % of adults held a bachelor’s degree or higher, with women more likely than men to have completed college. The report uses the American Community Survey, which offers larger, more detailed geographic samples than the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
By Sarah R. Crissey This report provides a portrait of edudiploma or its equivalent, while over cational attainment in the United States 1 in 4 (27 percent) reported a bachbased on data collected in the 2007 elor’s degree or higher. This reflects American Community Survey (ACS) and more than a three-fold increase in high data collected in 2008 and earlier in the school attainment and more than a Annual Social and Economic Supplement five-fold increase in college attainment (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey since the Census Bureau first collected (CPS).1 Previous U.S. Census Bureau educational attainment data in 1940. reports on this topic were based on edu• A larger proportion of women than cational attainment data from the CPS. men had completed high school or The ACS has a larger sample and provides more education. A larger proportion of statistics for small levels of geography, men had received at least a bachelor’s which is why it is now used as a main degree. source of educational attainment data.