Education in States and Nations: 1991

(ESN) Table 22a: Proportion of women among those aged 25 to 64, by level of educational attainment and country: 1991

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                                     Higher
            Less than              education         Higher  
                upper      Upper      (non-      education         All
Country     secondary  secondary  university)  (university)      levels
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Australia          58         26         66          39            50
Austria            66         43         **          41            50
Belgium            52         47         59          35            50
Canada             50         54         50          45            51
Czechoslovakia     66         46         **          40            51
Denmark            55         45         55          47            49
Finland            50         52         18          42            50
France             55         45         58          45            51
Germany            71         49         35          35            50
Ireland            47         58         51          40            50
Italy              52         48         **          43            51
Netherlands        57         45         47          31            49
New Zealand        58         37         69          40            51
Norway             52         50         25          40            49
Portugal           52         44         77          47            52
Spain              53         43         **          47            51
Sweden             48         50         23          46            49
Switzerland        65         52         20          32            50
Turkey             41         35         **          28            40
United Kingdom     59         45         60          36            50
United States*     50         53         55          45            51
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*1990 data.
** Persons are included in counts of another level of education.

NOTE: See supplemental note to Indicator 22 for a discussion of levels of education; the supplemental note for details on data provided by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and for a discussion comparing educational attainment data for the United States as it is found in the Current Population Survey to the same in the 1990 U.S. Census of Population.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, Education at a Glance, 1993, Table C2(A). U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population, Education in the United States, Table 1.

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Figure 22c Table 22b