Table 1.
Percentage of adults according to years of schooling and of children and adolescents enrolled in school by year and region: Brazil, 1970, 1991, and 2007
| Years of Schooling | 1970
|
1991
|
2007
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North and Northeast | South and Southeast | Brazil | North and Northeast | South and Southeast | Brazil | North and Northeast | South and Southeast | Brazil | |
| Adults (ages 30+) | |||||||||
| No schooling | 64.10 | 34.67 | 44.55 | 43.94 | 17.76 | 26.25 | 26.24 | 9.77 | 15.26 |
| Some primary (1–8 years) | 33.42 | 58.69 | 50.24 | 43.23 | 61.86 | 55.72 | 46.69 | 52.73 | 50.65 |
| Some secondary (9–11 years) | 1.65 | 4.06 | 3.22 | 9.14 | 11.55 | 10.84 | 19.39 | 22.87 | 21.68 |
| Some university (at least 12 years) | 0.80 | 2.34 | 1.82 | 3.87 | 8.79 | 7.22 | 7.68 | 14.64 | 12.41 |
| N | 484,789 | 980,574 | 1,538,400 | 991,519 | 1,946,159 | 3,131,481 | 77,860 | 90,106 | 188,140 |
| Children and Adolescents | |||||||||
| School enrollment (ages 7–18) | 47.55 | 65.54 | 58.73 | 61.03 | 74.63 | 68.99 | 88.18 | 89.17 | 88.65 |
| N | 521,222 | 875,904 | 1,480,301 | 978,724 | 1,220,455 | 2,357,992 | 44,686 | 35,584 | 89,853 |
| School enrollment (ages 7–15) | 51.38 | 74.24 | 65.49 | 65.41 | 83.39 | 75.86 | 93.96 | 96.01 | 94.96 |
| N | 405,983 | 675,311 | 1,146,055 | 766,095 | 942,501 | 1,830,880 | 33,988 | 26,791 | 67,918 |
Source: Brazilian census data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series—International (IPUMS-I) for years 1970 and 1991 (Minnesota Population Center 2010) and PNAD (National Household Sample Survey) for 2007.