
Education in States and Nations: 1991
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ State All levels Primary secondary Higher education ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alabama 21.4 17.6 37.5 Alaska 18.0 16.6 26.6 Arizona 23.9 21.1 34.3 Arkansas 22.7 19.3 42.3 California 19.6 16.6 32.7 Colorado 21.4 20.4 25.1 Connecticut 23.5 23.7 22.9 Delaware 15.8 15.3 17.7 District of Columbia 9.9 10.8 8.6 Florida 25.5 23.8 33.9 Georgia 21.0 18.4 36.4 Hawaii 20.0 15.6 41.2 Idaho 19.8 17.4 32.3 Illinois 19.3 18.3 23.6 Indiana 23.5 22.0 30.2 Iowa 23.0 20.2 33.3 Kansas 22.7 20.4 31.0 Kentucky 22.0 19.5 34.1 Louisiana 16.9 15.0 27.8 Maine 26.8 26.0 30.8 Maryland 25.6 22.7 38.6 Massachusetts 19.7 20.5 17.4 Michigan 25.9 25.0 29.8 Minnesota 21.5 19.9 28.2 Mississippi 20.7 17.1 39.0 Missouri 20.2 19.0 25.3 Montana 28.9 27.3 37.0 Nebraska 21.2 18.8 29.5 Nevada 18.9 17.2 28.5 New Hampshire 21.5 22.7 16.8 New Jersey 25.8 25.8 25.5 New Mexico 26.2 20.2 56.7 New York 25.2 25.0 25.7 North Carolina 23.2 19.5 38.1 North Dakota 23.0 19.2 36.5 Ohio 21.3 20.4 25.5 Oklahoma 21.3 19.0 31.4 Oregon 27.7 25.9 34.8 Pennsylvania 24.8 25.0 24.0 Rhode Island 23.5 25.6 18.2 South Carolina 23.1 20.5 36.5 South Dakota 20.0 18.4 27.1 Tennessee 19.1 16.2 33.1 Texas 20.3 18.2 30.9 Utah 19.6 15.7 37.2 Vermont 27.8 29.9 21.0 Virginia 21.2 20.6 23.7 Washington 22.6 20.1 34.0 West Virginia 28.9 28.0 32.9 Wisconsin 25.1 22.8 34.0 Wyoming 21.8 20.0 29.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 1993, Tables 45, 160, 197, 338, and 339; Digest of Education Statistics, 1994; Table 63; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Finance Survey, 1990-91. U.S. General Accounting Office, Education Finance, GAO/HEHS-95-3. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, December 1993; Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1992, Table 25.