About forty percent of Hispanics 17 years old and over participate in adult education.

In 1999, 41 percent of Hispanics 17 years old and over participated in adult education in the previous 12 months. Among employed Hispanics in this age group, this percentage was 44 percent, which was lower than the percentage for Whites (53 percent). Hispanics 17 years old and over, both employed and overall, were less likely than Whites, Blacks, and Asians/Pacific Islanders to have taken career or job-related courses. Hispanics were less likely than Whites to enroll in personal development courses, and employed Hispanics were also less likely than Blacks to do so. Overall, Hispanics were more likely than Whites and American Indians/Alaska Natives to have been in basic education. Also, Hispanics were more likely than the other racial/ethnic groups, with the exception of Asians/Pacific Islanders, to have taken English- as-a-second-language courses. Apparent differences in the other adult education activities between Hispanics and other racial/ethnic groups were not statistically significant (supplemental table 7.8).¹⁹

19  The fact that there is no statistical difference between Hispanics and Asians/Pacific Islanders or between Hispanics and American Indians/Alaska Natives may be due to large standard errors.