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A Half-Century of Learning: Historical Census Statistics on Educational Attainment in the United States, 1940 to 2000

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SOURCES

1943a.  U.S. Census of Population:  1940, Vol. II, Characteristics of the Population, Parts  1 through 7, United States Summary and Alabama-District of Columbia, Florida-Iowa, Kansas-Michigan, Minnesota-New Mexico, New York-Oregon, Pennsylvania-Texas, and Utah-Wyoming.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1943b.  U.S. Census of Population:  1940, Vol. IV, Reports on Population, Characteristics by Age, Marital Status, Relationship, Education, and Citizenship, Part 1, United States Summary.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1943c.  U.S. Census of Population:  1940, Characteristics of the Nonwhite Population by Race, Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1953a.  U.S. Census of Population:  1950, Vol. II, Characteristics of the Population, Number of Inhabitants, General and Detailed Characteristics of the Population, Parts 1 through 50, United States Summary (and individual state volumes).  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1953b.  U.S. Census of Population:  1950, SpecialReport P-E No. 3B a preprint of Vol. IV, Part 3, Chapter B, Nonwhite Population by Race.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1963.  U.S. Census of Population:  1960, Subject Reports, Nonwhite Population by Race, Final Report PC(2)-1C.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1964.  U.S. Census of Population:  1960, Vol. I, Characteristics of the Population, Parts 1 through 52, United States Summary (and individual state volumes).  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1973a.  U.S. Census of Population:  1970, Vol. I, Characteristics of the Population, Parts 1 through 52, United States Summary (and individual state volumes).  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1973b.  U.S. Census of Population:  1970, Subject Report PC(2)-1F, American Indians.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1973c.  U.S. Census of Population:  1970, Subject Report PC(2)-1G, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos in the United States.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1984a.  U.S. Census of Population:  1980, Vol. I, Characteristics of the Population, Parts 1 through 52, Chapter D, Detailed Population Characteristics, United States Summary, PC80-1-D1-A (and individual state volumes).  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

1994.  U.S. Census of Population:  1990, 1990 CP-3-4, Education in the United States.  Washington, DC:  U.S. Government Printing Office.

2002.  Census 2000 Summary File 3, prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau.


GENERAL REFERENCES

Bennett, Claudette.  2000a.  “African-Origin Population,” in Margo J. Anderson, Editor in Chief, Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, pp. 18-22.  Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Bennett, Claudette.  2000b.  “Race: Questions and Classifications,” in Margo J. Anderson, Editor in Chief, “Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, pp. 313-317.  Washington, DC: CQ Press.

Gibson, Campbell and Kay Jung.  2002.  “Historical Census Statistics on Population Totals by Race, 1790 to 1990, and by Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, for the United States, Regions, Divisions, and States,” U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division Working Paper No. 56.

Kominski, Robert.  1992.  “Educational Attainment in the United States:  Results from the 1990 Census,” U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 20-24, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

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