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Figure 2. Enrollment, total expenditures in constant dollars, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2011–12

Figure 2. Enrollment, total expenditures in constant dollars, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2011–12
 
NOTE: Elementary and secondary enrollment data for school year 2011 (2011–12) are projected. Elementary and secondary expenditure data for school years 2010 and 2011 (2010–11 and 2011–12) are estimated. Postsecondary expenditure data for school year 2011 (2011–12) are estimated.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, 1965–66 through 1969–70; Statistics of Public Elementary and Sec- ondary School Systems, 1965 through 1980; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1970–71 through 1986–87; Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education," 1981–82 through 2010–11, and "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1987–88 through 2009–10; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2009–10; Projections of Education Statistics to 2021; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education" and "Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education" surveys, 1965–66 through 1985–86; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enroll- ment Survey" (IPEDS-EF:86–99) and "Finance Survey" (IPEDS-F:FY87–99); and IPEDS Spring 2001 through Spring 2012, Enrollment and Finance components. U.S. Department of Com- merce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables, retrieved January 10, 2013, from http://www.bea.gov/iTable/index_nipa.cfm.

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