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Digest of Education Statistics: 2009
Digest of Education Statistics: 2009

NCES 2010-013
April 2010


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 2008–09

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 2008–09
 
NOTE: Expenditure data for school years 2007 and 2008 (2007–08 and 2008–09) are estimated. Enrollment data for school year 2008 (2008–09) for elementary and secondary are projected.
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 Secondary 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," 1985–86 through 2007–08; "National Public Education Financial Survey," 1986–87 through 2006–07; Statistics of Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Schools, 1970–71 through 1979–80; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2007–08; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education, 1965–66 through 1985–86; Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education, 1965–66 through 1985–86; 1986–87 through 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Finance Survey," (IPEDS-F:FY87–99), Spring 2001 through Spring 2008; and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables, retrieved September 24, 2009, from http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N.