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High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
90.0
Antelope
92.4
Arthur
94.3
Banner
97.1
Blaine
96.3
Boone
94.2
Box Butte
91.7
Boyd
94.6
Brown
92.0
Buffalo
93.0
Burt
90.4
Butler
92.1
Cass
94.9
Cedar
92.6
Chase
88.6
Cherry
91.3
Cheyenne
93.3
Clay
90.7
Colfax
70.2
Cuming
87.4
Custer
92.9
Dakota
74.6
Dawes
95.3
Dawson
77.9
Deuel
89.8
Dixon
88.6
Dodge
89.3
Douglas
90.0
Dundy
81.9
Fillmore
91.9
Franklin
92.7
Frontier
95.4
Furnas
88.6
Gage
89.7
Garden
93.2
Garfield
96.1
Gosper
95.7
Grant
96.8
Greeley
93.7
Hall
84.7
Hamilton
94.7
Harlan
90.1
Hayes
88.2
Hitchcock
92.7
Holt
92.7
Hooker
93.5
Howard
92.8
Jefferson
91.2
Johnson
86.2
Kearney
96.1
Keith
91.2
Keya Paha
95.3
Kimball
88.5
Knox
91.2
Lancaster
93.5
Lincoln
93.2
Logan
92.6
Loup
97.8
Madison
90.1
McPherson
89.1
Merrick
94.0
Morrill
86.6
Nance
91.5
Nemaha
93.0
Nuckolls
92.4
Otoe
91.5
Pawnee
88.2
Perkins
89.3
Phelps
93.7
Pierce
94.8
Platte
88.7
Polk
92.0
Red Willow
92.1
Richardson
93.2
Rock
94.9
Saline
84.3
Sarpy
95.2
Saunders
92.8
Scotts Bluff
87.5
Seward
94.1
Sheridan
90.4
Sherman
93.0
Sioux
93.3
Stanton
93.0
Thayer
92.7
Thomas
92.5
Thurston
87.6
Valley
92.5
Washington
95.7
Wayne
95.8
Webster
92.2
Wheeler
95.2
York
93.7
Value for Nebraska (Percent): 91.1%
Data item: High school graduate 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 errors. 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.
