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College Enrollment by Sex, Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1980 to 2005 (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0274)

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About

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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Credits

US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population

Reports, PPL-148; and earlier PPL and P-20 reports.

See Internet site < http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html >

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population

Reports, PPL-148; and earlier PPL and P-20 reports.

See Internet site < http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html >

FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html

__referenced on dataset section Notes …

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population

Reports, PPL-148; and earlier PPL and P-20 reports.

See Internet site < http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html >

referenced on dataset section historical (#3)

Usage Notes

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Rights Info

All US Census Bureau materials, regardless of the media, are entirely in the public domain. There are no user fees, site licenses, or any special agreements etc for the public or private use, and or reuse of any census title. As tax funded product, it’s all in the public record.
Some of our products, however, are special cases. […] The Statistical Abstract has some data covered by copyright law. Check the table’s footnotes to determine if the data are covered by copyright law.

File structure

The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

The CSV files, and the payload portions of the yaml files, have not been processed beyond extracting an array (excel sheets) of 2-D arrays (each sheet’s cells).

Some metadata (title, footnotes, symbols, and sources) has been copied (without molesting the imported stream) into the appropriate slot in this schema. This metadata identification was purposefully done to be strict and simple, and the original files are somewhat irregular, so it’s possible that some metadata fields were missed

These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Beginning 1990, based on a revised edit and
    tabulation package.
  2. Includes other races not shown separately.
  3. Includes persons 14 to 17 years old, not shown
    separately.
  4. Beginning 2003, for persons who selected this race group only. See footnote 2, Table 217.
  5. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any
    race.

historical (pg 3)

  1. Beginning 1986, based on a revised edit and
    tabulation package.
  2. Includes other races not shown separately.
  3. Includes persons 14 to 17 years old, not shown
    separately.
  4. Beginning 2003, for persons who selected this race group only. See footnote 2, Table 214.
  5. Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any
    race.

Headnotes

[In thousands (11,387 represents 11,387,000). As of October for the civilian noninstitutional
population, 14 years old and over. Based on the Current Population
Survey; see text, Section 1, Population, and Appendix III]

Shape

table: [37, 12]

Snippet

Total 2 (1,000) 11387 12524 13621 14715 15203 15314 15873 16497 16638 17383 17472
Male 3 5430 5906 6192 6703 6956 6682 6875 7240 7318 7575 7539
18 to 24 years 3604 3749 3922 4089 4397 4342 4437 4629 4697 4866 4972
25 to 34 years 1325 1464 1412 1561 1458 1361 1476 1460 1590 1604 1486
35 years old and over 405 561 772 985 1024 918 908 1071 970 1033 1019
Female 3 5957 6618 7429 8013 8247 8631 8998 9258 9319 9808 9933
18 to 24 years 3625 3788 4042 4452 4863 5109 5192 5404 5667 5742 5859
25 to 34 years 1378 1599 1749 1788 1637 1846 1946 1941 1904 2091 2115
35 years old and over 802 1100 1546 1684 1675 1589 1776 1797 1660 1850 1838
12=. … snip
Reports, PPL-148; and earlier PPL and P-20 reports.
See Internet site <http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html>

Symbols

Notes (pg 2)

  • (NA) Not available.

historical (pg 3)

  • (NA) Not available.

Tablenum

0274

Year

2008

History

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