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Educational Attainment Working Papers
Educational Attainment Working Papers
Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.
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Working Paper
2022 American Community Survey Content Test: Educational Attainment
Results from the 2022 ACS Content Test of the question about educational attainment.
Working Paper
Understanding Changes in Bachelor's Degree Attainment
This working paper uses ACS 5-year datasets to examine county-level changes in educational attainment from 2005 to 2019.
Working Paper
2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.
Working Paper
2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.
Working Paper
High School Equivalents and Disability Status: The Role of Context
This paper examines county-level variation in the relationship between GEDs and disability. (SEHSD Working Paper 2018-05)
Working Paper
Capturing more than poverty: Free & reduced-price lunches and income
This paper investigates whether free and reduced-price lunch designations capture students’ household income and educational disadvantage.
Working Paper
2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Race and Hispanic Origin
Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the questions about Race and Hispanic origin.
Working Paper
Who Has a Second-Generation Educational Attainment Advantage?
Working Paper presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting April 27-29, 2017.
Working Paper
College Completion by Cohort, Age and Gender, 1967 to 2015
In addition to data from the Current Population Survey, this paper uses data obtained from the public-use file of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.
Working Paper
Racial Inequality in Expanded Measures of Educational Attainment
Well document ed racial and ethnic differences in educational attainment have persisted in the post Brown vs. Board of Education era.
Working Paper
Expanded Measures of Education and their Labor Market Outcomes
This paper analyzes data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
Working Paper
Lone Mothers' Educational Attainment, Labor Market Outcomes, & Poverty
This paper assesses the well-being of lone mothers. It compares educational attainment, labor force participation, and poverty status from 1967 to the present.
Working Paper
SIPP Work Experience and Earnings Associations
This paper focuses on the earnings of individuals based on years of experience.
Working Paper
Marital Homogamy and Economic Vulnerability During the Great Recession
Examines whether those employed/formerly employed in occupations that were hard‐hit by the recession were more likely to have employed partners after recession.
Working Paper
Translation of Survey Items on Country Specific Programs
This paper presents results from the cognitive testing of the Spanish translation of educational level questions in the U.S. Census Bureau’s ACS.
Working Paper
Changing Levels of Spousal Education and Labor Force Supply
The purpose of this paper is to describe the labor force behavior of married couples where the woman is more educated than her husband.
Working Paper
Measurement of High School Equivalency Credentials
This paper outlines the ways that the Census Bureau captures persons with alternative high school credentials.
Working Paper
Education Quality in the U.S.: Data from the 2009 ACS
This working paper is from 2011 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Examining Small-scale Geographic Estimates from the ACS 5-Year Data
This paper provides an examination of a practical applied problem (levels of high school dropouts) using publicly-accessible data and information from the ACS.
Working Paper
Educational Characteristics of Prisoners: Data from the ACS
Growth in the prison population has focused attention on the educational characteristics of the adult correctional population.
Working Paper
Evolving Labor Force Outcomes for Married Couples
This paper seeks to study the changes in labor market outcomes among married couples based on their level of education relative to their spouse.
Working Paper
Developing Synthetic Worklife Earnings Estimates
This working paper is from 2010 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Between a Diploma and a Bachelor’s Degree
This working paper is from 2010 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Profile of the Puerto Rican Population in U.S. and Puerto Rico 2008
This working paper is from 2010 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Testing a New Field of Degree Question for the ACS
Results of the proposed addition of field of degree as tested in the 2007 American Community Survey Methods Test.
Working Paper
Working Beyond Retirement-Age
This presentation focuses on why people might be working beyond retirement-age.
Working Paper
U.S. Hispanic Population: 2006
This presentation includes graphs for data collected around the Hispanic population.
Working Paper
Educational Attainment and Vocational/Technical Training:
This paper examines a redesigned approach to educational attainment measurement in the context of the Census Bureau's automated SIPP questionnaire.
Working Paper
The Gender Gap in Educational Attainment
This working paper is from 2007 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Evaluation Report Covering Educational Attainment
Results of proposed changes to the educational attainment content as tested in the 2006 American Community Survey Content Test.
Working Paper
Comparison of ACS and ASEC Data on Educational Attainment: 2004
Comparison of educational attainment data between the 2004 ACS and the 2004 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey.
Working Paper
Hispanics in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands: 2000
This report presents several demographic, social, and economic characteristics collected from Census 2000.
Working Paper
The Contribution of Foreign Schools to U.S. Educational Attainment
This working paper is from 2006 for Educational Attainment.
Working Paper
Report 9: Comparing Social Characteristics with Census 2000
Compares results from Census 2000 to results from the American Community Survey for characteristics such as nativity, place of birth, language, and ancestry.
Working Paper
What about the Children?
Data obtained from the Supplementary Survey 2001 contain valuable information about the household and family experiences of children.
Working Paper
The Earnings Gap by Occupation and Educational Attainment: Census 2000
This The Earnings Gap by Occupation and Educational Attainment: Findings from Census 2000 working-paper is of the Decennial Census.
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