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Digest of Education Statistics
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Figure 3. Percentage of persons 25 years old and over, by highest level of educational attainment: Selected years, 1940 through 2008

Figure 3. Percentage of persons 25 years old and over, by highest level of educational attainment: Selected years, 1940 through 2008
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, U.S. Census of Population, 1960, Volume 1, Part 1; Current Population Reports, Series P-20; Current Population Survey (CPS), March 1961 through March 2008; and 1960 Census Monograph, Education of the American Population, by John K. Folger and Charles B. Nam.

2008 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest


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