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Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1811] Crosspost NLA INFO: Education and Incomes-Census Bureau Report
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The following report from the Census Bureau contains some interesting
information on the correlation between income and education.
Akeel H. Zaheer
National Center for Family Literacy
Email: azaheer@famlit.org
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Attached is some interesting new information from the Census Bureau.
-- Alice Johnson
National Institute for Literacy
> EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EST, DECEMBER 10, 1998 (THURSDAY)
>
> Public Information Office CB98-221
> 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax)
> 301-457-4067 (TDD)
> e-mail: pio@census.gov
>
> Jennifer Day
> 301-457-2464
>
> Higher Education Means More Money,
> Census Bureau Says
>
> Underscoring the significant correlation between more education and
> higher salaries, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau today reported in
> a new study that, in 1997, adults age 18 and over with a bachelor's degree
> earned an average of $40,478 a year, while those with only a high school
> diploma earned $22,895.
>
> Advanced degree-holders made about $63,229 a year, while those without a
> high school diploma averaged $16,124.
>
> The report, Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1998
> (Update), P20-513, also includes the following highlights:
>
> - About 83 percent of adults age 25 and over completed high school and
> 24 percent had a bachelor's degree or more.
>
> - The high school completion rate for young adults (age 25 to 29) was 88
> percent, while 27 percent earned a college degree.
>
> - For those age 25 to 29, college completion rates for young women
> exceeded those for young men at 29 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
>
> - About 84 percent of Whites age 25 and over completed high school and
> 25 percent had a bachelor's degree or more. The equivalent rates for
> African Americans were 76 percent and 15 percent.
>
> - About 90 percent of the employed civilian labor force age 25 and over
> had a high school degree.
>
> - High school completion levels for those age 25 and over were highest
> in the Midwest (86 percent) and lowest in the South (80 percent).
>
> The report is based on data from the 1998 March Current Population
> Survey. As in all surveys, the estimates are subject to sampling
> variability and other sources of error.
>
> -X-
>
> Editor's Note: The embargoed data can be accessed at
> <http://www.census.gov/dcmd/www/embargo/embargo.html>. Call the
> Public Information Office for a password. After the release time, go
> to <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/educ-attn.html>. A
> faxed copy of the report may be obtained by calling the Public
> Information Office's 24-hour Fax-On-Demand service on
> 1-888-206-6463 and requesting document no. 1343.
>
> The U.S. Census Bureau, pre-eminent collector and disseminator of timely,
> relevant and quality data about the people and the economy of the United
> States, conducts a population and housing census every 10 years, an
> economic census every five years and more than 100 demographic and
> economic surveys every year, all of them evolving from the first census in
> 1790.
>
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