Table 14. | Educational attainment of persons 25 years old and over, for the 15 largestmetropolitan areas: March 1995 |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ | |Percent high school |Percent completed |Number of persons 25 | completion or higher|bachelor's degree | years old and over | |or more Metropolitan area | (in thousands) | | |_____________________|_____________________|_____________________ | Total | Male |Female| Male | Female | Male | Female ___________________________________|_______|______|______|__________|__________|__________|__________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 ___________________________________|_______|______|______|__________|__________|__________|__________ Atlanta, GA .......................| 1,883 | 899 | 984 |87.6 (3.7)|88.4 (3.5)|37.4 (5.5)|31.5 (5.1) Boston-Lawrence-Salem, MA/NH ......| 3,254 |1,548 |1,706 |88.2 (1.5)|87.1 (1.5)|38.8 (2.3)|32.5 (2.1) Chicago-Gary-Lake County, IL/IN/WI | 5,306 |2,506 |2,800 |83.7 (1.8)|83.8 (1.7)|31.4 (2.3)|25.6 (2.1) Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, OH ........| 2,016 | 925 |1,091 |81.0 (3.1)|79.3 (2.9)|24.9 (3.4)|16.4 (2.7) Dallas-Fort Worth, TX .............| 2,595 |1,260 |1,336 |79.3 (3.3)|79.1 (3.2)|27.3 (3.6)|20.7 (3.2) | | | | | | | Detroit-Ann Arbor, MI .............| 3,472 |1,652 |1,820 |80.9 (2.1)|80.7 (2.1)|27.2 (2.4)|18.8 (2.0) Houston-Galveston-Brazoria, TX ....| 3,077 |1,475 |1,602 |83.7 (2.8)|83.4 (2.7)|31.4 (3.5)|22.1 (3.0) Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside, CA .| 9,467 |4,605 |4,862 |77.5 (1.5)|75.2 (1.5)|28.4 (1.6)|19.7 (1.4) Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL .........| 2,232 |1,055 |1,177 |85.7 (2.7)|81.9 (2.8)|27.3 (3.4)|20.4 (2.9) New York-Northern New Jersey- | | | | | | | Long Island, NY/NJ/CT .............|12,525 |5,770 |6,754 |84.4 (1.1)|82.5 (1.1)|32.8 (1.4)|25.3 (1.2) | | | | | | | Philadelphia-Wilmington-Trenton, | | | | | | | PA/NJ/DE/MD ......................| 4,248 |2,025 |2,223 |83.6 (2.0)|83.8 (1.9)|34.3 (2.6)|25.8 (2.3) Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley, PA ......| 1,911 | 926 | 985 |81.1 (3.2)|81.4 (3.1)|26.6 (3.6)|19.8 (3.1) San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA | 4,298 |2,136 |2,162 |89.2 (2.1)|87.9 (2.2)|35.8 (3.2)|29.1 (3.0) St. Louis, MO/IL ..................| 1,641 | 775 | 866 |81.1 (4.9)|83.2 (4.4)|27.5 (5.6)|20.8 (4.8) Washington, DC/MD/VA ..............| 2,872 |1,460 |1,411 |85.5 (3.0)|85.8 (3.0)|38.6 (4.2)|28.1 (3.9) ___________________________________|_______|______|______|__________|__________|__________|__________ |
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, "Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1995." (This table was prepared July 1997.)
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