Resource
Brochure
Mini-Digest of Education Statistics, 1996
NCES
Author(s):
Thomas D. Snyder
Publication date:
January 1997
Survey areas:
Publication number:
NCES 97379
Summary
This pocket size booklet contains a synopsis of education statistics found in the Digest. Education was the primary occupation of about 74 million people in the United States in the fall of 1995. Included in this total were about 66.1 million students enrolled in American schools and colleges. About 4 million people were employed as elementary and secondary school teachers and as college faculty. Other professional, administrative, and support staff of educational institutions numbered 4.4 million. In a nation with a population af about 265 million, more than 1 out of every 4 persons participated in formal education.