Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007.

By Sarah R. Crissey This report provides a portrait of edudiploma or its equivalent, while over cational attainment in the United States 1 in 4 (27 percent) reported a bachbased on data collected in the 2007 elor’s degree or higher. This reflects American Community Survey (ACS) and more than a three-fold increase in high data collected in 2008 and earlier in the school attainment and more than a Annual Social and Economic Supplement five-fold increase in college attainment (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey since the Census Bureau first collected (CPS).1 Previous U.S. Census Bureau educational attainment data in 1940. reports on this topic were based on edu• A larger proportion of women than cational…