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Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
15.3
Allen
28.2
Bartholomew
32.3
Benton
16.9
Blackford
13.6
Boone
48.3
Brown
27.4
Carroll
17.2
Cass
13.9
Clark
20.9
Clay
16.8
Clinton
16.6
Crawford
11.4
Daviess
13.8
Dearborn
21.6
Decatur
19.6
DeKalb
17.7
Delaware
24.3
Dubois
22.2
Elkhart
19.2
Fayette
11.6
Floyd
29.5
Fountain
15.0
Franklin
19.8
Fulton
14.4
Gibson
17.4
Grant
17.1
Greene
14.8
Hamilton
57.8
Hancock
30.3
Harrison
17.4
Hendricks
36.3
Henry
16.6
Howard
21.2
Huntington
19.0
Jackson
15.5
Jasper
14.9
Jay
10.6
Jefferson
17.9
Jennings
11.1
Johnson
31.8
Knox
16.4
Kosciusko
22.7
LaGrange
10.4
Lake
22.1
LaPorte
17.9
Lawrence
15.5
Madison
18.0
Marion
30.4
Marshall
20.5
Martin
13.4
Miami
12.7
Monroe
45.6
Montgomery
18.1
Morgan
16.9
Newton
11.2
Noble
14.3
Ohio
13.7
Orange
12.3
Owen
12.6
Parke
12.2
Perry
14.9
Pike
13.7
Porter
28.2
Posey
20.7
Pulaski
12.5
Putnam
16.1
Randolph
14.3
Ripley
18.1
Rush
13.0
Scott
11.9
Shelby
19.4
Spencer
14.9
St. Joseph
29.2
Starke
10.8
Steuben
20.6
Sullivan
10.8
Switzerland
9.9
Tippecanoe
37.7
Tipton
23.0
Union
16.9
Vanderburgh
26.3
Vermillion
13.4
Vigo
24.5
Wabash
18.4
Warren
18.9
Warrick
29.6
Washington
13.2
Wayne
18.2
Wells
18.1
White
16.8
Whitley
20.9
Value for Indiana (Percent): 25.9%
Data item: Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
High School Graduates include people whose highest degree was a high school diploma or its equivalent, people who attended college but did not receive a degree, and people who received an associate's, bachelor's, master's, or professional or doctorate degree. People who reported completing the 12th grade but not receiving a diploma are not included. Persons with a Bachelor's Degree or Higher are those who have received a bachelor's degree from a college or university, or a master's, professional, or doctorate degree. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Educational Attainment."
These data include only persons 25 years old and over. The percentages are obtained by dividing the counts of graduates by the total number of persons 25 years old and over.
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of error. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
