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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Indic Res. 2006 Aug 2;82(1):1–33. doi: 10.1007/s11205-006-9017-y

Weighted distribution (frequency and column %) of education level by survey

1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2003
0–8th grade Count 257 618 163 200 726
% 13.01 14.21 6.44 2.91 4.11
9–11th grade Count 403 629 241 513 1464
% 20.39 14.47 9.53 7.46 8.29
High school graduate Count 775 1677 1094 2371 5101
% 39.22 38.57 43.24 34.5 28.9
Some college Count 289 687 455 1731 3549
% 14.63 15.80 17.98 25.19 20.11
College graduate Count 206 391 393 1182 4921
% 10.43 8.99 15.53 17.2 27.88
Post college Count 46 346 184 876 1889
% 2.33 7.96 7.27 12.75 10.7
All Count 1976 4348 2530 6873 17,650
% 100 100 100 100 100