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Bachelor's degree or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
24.9
Antelope
19.1
Arthur
27.9
Banner
20.7
Blaine
22.7
Boone
20.6
Box Butte
18.2
Boyd
18.2
Brown
19.8
Buffalo
34.7
Burt
18.1
Butler
19.9
Cass
27.4
Cedar
19.4
Chase
20.8
Cherry
21.2
Cheyenne
26.2
Clay
18.4
Colfax
14.5
Cuming
23.2
Custer
20.9
Dakota
12.5
Dawes
37.0
Dawson
15.6
Deuel
15.8
Dixon
20.5
Dodge
18.6
Douglas
38.9
Dundy
19.4
Fillmore
19.9
Franklin
16.6
Frontier
20.0
Furnas
18.9
Gage
20.2
Garden
24.9
Garfield
22.2
Gosper
26.4
Grant
25.2
Greeley
17.4
Hall
20.9
Hamilton
26.0
Harlan
21.4
Hayes
18.1
Hitchcock
18.6
Holt
21.2
Hooker
23.9
Howard
20.5
Jefferson
15.3
Johnson
16.0
Kearney
22.7
Keith
20.7
Keya Paha
22.9
Kimball
18.2
Knox
21.7
Lancaster
38.8
Lincoln
22.1
Logan
19.7
Loup
23.2
Madison
22.4
McPherson
24.9
Merrick
17.4
Morrill
18.1
Nance
19.8
Nemaha
28.1
Nuckolls
19.1
Otoe
21.8
Pawnee
17.5
Perkins
25.8
Phelps
25.9
Pierce
22.3
Platte
22.2
Polk
21.1
Red Willow
18.8
Richardson
18.2
Rock
20.9
Saline
14.3
Sarpy
40.1
Saunders
25.4
Scotts Bluff
22.4
Seward
29.2
Sheridan
23.6
Sherman
18.2
Sioux
26.6
Stanton
16.6
Thayer
19.8
Thomas
24.0
Thurston
16.7
Valley
22.8
Washington
30.3
Wayne
34.5
Webster
22.6
Wheeler
17.3
York
28.1
Value for Nebraska (Percent): 31.3%
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.
