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Trends in Adult Literary Reading Habits
Table S15.  Standard errors for the percentage of adults age 25 or older who reported reading literature in the past 12 months, by educational attainment: Various years, 1982–2002

Educational attainment 1982 1985 1992 2002

     Total 0.4 0.8 0.5 0.5
Less than high school 0.7 0.9 1.0 0.9
High school diploma or equivalent 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8
Some college 0.9 1.0 1.1 0.9
Bachelor’s degree or higher 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.8

SOURCE: National Endowment for the Arts, Survey of Public Participation in the Arts as part of the 1982 Bureau of the Census National Crime Survey, 1985 and 1992 Bureau of the Census National Crime Victimization Survey, and 2002 Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey, August Supplement, previously unpublished tabulation (February 2005).

 
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