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Educational Attainment

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A Half-Century Of Learning: Historical Census Statistics On Educational Attainment in the United States, 1940 to 2000: Graphs

Note: These graphs are based on the data from the detailed tables.


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Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Educational Attainment |  Last Revised: September 22, 2010