Years of school completed by persons age 25 and over in the 15 largest states and the 15 largest metropolitan areas: March 1993

Table 13.

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                    |       Percent completing --      ||                                   |      Percent completing --
                    |__________________________________||                                   |___________________________________
                    | Less than |High school|Bachelor's||           Metropolitan            | Less than |High school|Bachelor's
       State        |high school|  diploma  |degree or ||              area\1\              |high school|  diploma  | degree or
                    |  diploma  |           |   more   ||                                   |  diploma  |           |   more
____________________|___________|___________|__________||___________________________________|___________|___________|___________
         1          |     2     |     3     |    4     ||                 5                 |     6     |     7     |     8
____________________|___________|___________|__________||___________________________________|___________|___________|___________
  United States \2\ |      19.8 |      80.2 |     21.9 ||                                   |           |           |
                    |___________|___________|__________||                                   |           |           |
California .........|      20.3 |      79.7 |     25.0 ||Atlanta, Ga. ......................|      15.9 |      84.1 |      31.3
Florida ............|      20.4 |      79.6 |     19.8 ||Boston, Mass. .....................|      13.0 |      87.0 |      34.9
Georgia ............|      25.3 |      74.7 |     21.1 ||Chicago, Ill. .....................|      21.4 |      78.6 |      25.0
Illinois ...........|      20.8 |      79.2 |     22.1 ||Cleveland, OH  ....................|      14.0 |      86.0 |      21.9
Indiana ............|      20.8 |      79.2 |     14.1 ||Dallas, Tex. ......................|      19.1 |      80.9 |      27.2
                    |           |           |          ||                                   |           |           |
Massachusetts ......|      15.4 |      84.6 |     30.0 ||Detroit, Mich. ....................|      18.3 |      81.7 |      22.1
Michigan ...........|      18.5 |      81.5 |     19.1 ||Houston, Tex. .....................|      16.7 |      83.3 |      30.7
Mississippi  .......|      28.3 |      71.7 |     17.5 ||Los Angeles/Anaheim/Riverside, CA .|      23.4 |      76.6 |      23.6
New Jersey .........|      17.9 |      82.1 |     27.9 ||Miami, FL  ........................|      24.6 |      75.4 |      21.2
New York ...........|      19.3 |      80.7 |     24.2 ||New York, N.Y. ....................|      19.7 |      80.3 |      27.7
                    |           |           |          ||                                   |           |           |
North Carolina .....|      25.2 |      74.8 |     18.5 ||Philadelphia, Penn./N.J. ..........|      20.4 |      79.6 |      23.4
Ohio ...............|      17.2 |      82.8 |     19.5 ||Pittsburgh, PA  ...................|      17.7 |      82.3 |      20.5
Pennsylvania .......|      20.2 |      79.8 |     18.7 ||San Francisco, CA  ................|      16.0 |      86.3 |      33.0
Texas ..............|      22.7 |      77.3 |     22.1 ||St. Louis, MO  ....................|      19.1 |      80.9 |      21.2
Virginia ...........|      19.3 |      80.7 |     25.8 ||Washington, D.C./Md./Va. ........  |      12.0 |      88.0 |      38.2
____________________|___________|___________|__________||___________________________________|___________|___________|___________

\1\ Metropolitan Statistical Area.
\2\ Includes data for all states and the District of Columbia.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P-20, No. 476, Educational Attainment in the United States: March 1993. (This table was prepared July 1995.)

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