Educational Attainment for the Population 25...
Educational attainment data are needed for use in assessing the socioeconomic condition of the U.S. population. Government agencies also require these data for funding allocations and program planning and implementation. These data are needed to determine the extent of illiteracy rates of citizens in language minorities in order to meet statutory requirements under the Voting Rights Act. Based on data about educational attainment, school districts are allocated funds to provide classes in basic skills to adults who have not completed high school.
Data on educational attainment were derived from answers to Question 11 on the 2014 ACS, which was asked of all respondents. Educational attainment data are tabulated for people 18 years old and over. Respondents are classified according to the highest degree or the highest level of school completed. The question included instructions for persons currently enrolled in school to report the level of the previous grade attended or the highest degree received.
The educational attainment question included a response category that allowed people to report completing the 12th grade without receiving a high school diploma. Respondents who received a regular high school diploma and did not attend college were instructed to report “Regular high school diploma.”
Respondents who received the equivalent of a high school diploma (for example, passed the test of General Educational Development (G.E.D.)), and did not attend college, were instructed to report “GED or alternative credential.” “Some college” is in two categories: “Some college credit, but less than 1 year of college credit” and “1 or more years of college credit, no degree.” The category “Associate’s degree” included people whose highest degree is an associate’s degree, which generally requires 2 years of college level work and is either in an occupational program that prepares them for a specific occupation, or an academic program primarily in the arts and sciences. The course work may or may not be transferable to a bachelor’s degree. Master’s degrees include the traditional MA and MS degrees and field-specific degrees, such as MSW, MEd, MBA, MLS, and MEng. Instructions included in the respondent instruction guide for mailout/mailback respondents only provided the following examples of professional school degrees: medicine, dentistry, chiropractic, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, veterinary medicine, law, and theology. The order in which degrees were listed suggested that doctorate degrees were “higher” than professional school degrees, which were “higher” than master's degrees. If more than one box was filled, the response was edited to the highest level or degree reported.
The instructions further specified that schooling completed in foreign or ungraded school systems should be reported as the equivalent level of schooling in the regular American system. The instructions specified that certificates or diplomas for training in specific trades or from vocational, technical or business schools were not to be reported. Honorary degrees awarded for a respondent's accomplishments were not to be reported.
Data Dictionary
| Column | Type | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood | text | ||
| Id | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - No schooling completed | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - No schooling completed | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Nursery school | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Nursery school | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Kindergarten | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Kindergarten | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 1st grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 1st grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 2nd grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 2nd grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 3rd grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 3rd grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 4th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 4th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 5th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 5th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 6th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 6th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 7th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 7th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 8th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 8th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 9th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 9th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 10th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 10th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 11th grade | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 11th grade | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - 12th grade, no diploma | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - 12th grade, no diploma | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Regular high school diploma | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Regular high school diploma | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - GED or alternative credential | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - GED or alternative credential | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Some college, less than 1 year | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Some college, less than 1 year | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Some college, 1 or more years, no degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Some college, 1 or more years, no deg | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Associate's degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Associate's degree | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Bachelor's degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Bachelor's degree | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Master's degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Master's degree | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Professional school degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Professional school degree | text | ||
| Estimate; Total: - Doctorate degree | text | ||
| Margin of Error; Total: - Doctorate degree | text |
Additional Information
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Data last updated | August 29, 2017 |
| Metadata last updated | May 21, 2023 |
| Created | August 29, 2017 |
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