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Figure 2. Fall enrollment, total expenditures, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2018–19

Figure 2. Fall enrollment, total expenditures, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2018–19

NOTE: Elementary and secondary enrollment data for school year 2018 (2018–19) are projected. Elementary and secondary expenditure data for school years 2017 and 2018 (2017–18 and 2018–19) and postsecondary expenditure data for school year 2018 (2018–19) are estimated based on teacher and enrollment data and actual expenditures for prior years.
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,” 1981–82 through 2017–18, and “National Public Education Financial Survey,” 1987–88 through 2016–17; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2017–18; National Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Projection Model, 1972 through 2029; 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 Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:86–99) and “Finance Survey” (IPEDS-F:FY87–99); and IPEDS Spring 2001 through Spring 2019, Fall Enrollment and Finance components. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables, retrieved December 31, 2019, from https://apps.bea.gov/itable/index.cfm.

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