Educational Attainment of Nebraska's Working Age Population via 2011-07 ACS PUMS

20180504 Update: This is a data set that is prepared explicitly for Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (Nebraska CCPE) so that they can proceed with their 2018 Progress Report. The reason for this note is to increase the chance so people can find the data because CCPE refused to cite this web article as the source of the data

For this data release, the working age is defined as 22 to 64, inclusive.

This is a quick release of Nebraska's data, the full data for every State will follow.

Last year I was summarizing data manually - basically, wrote database queries with a temporary mapping table that translates ACS' education attainment levels to our desired levels. This year, I formalized some features in the database and try to build queries based on those formalized features.

The Nebraska data is presented in the following table:

Ed. Attainment Level	Head Count	90% MOE	Possible Range
1. No High School Diploma	84,417	3,198	81,219 to 87,614
2. Has High School Diploma	258,046	4,404	253,641 to 262,450
3. Some College Exp. - No Degree	255,970	5,053	250,917 to 261,022
4. Associate's Degree	109,736	2,995	106,740 to 112,731
5. Bachelor's Degree	212,931	3,753	209,178 to 216,683
6. Master's Degree	59,012	2,146	56,865 to 61,158
7. First Professional Degree	17,250	1,020	16,230 to 18,269
8. Doctor's Degree	9,335	975	8,359 to 10,310

The released data can be accessed through Google drive here. The released data includes all estimates that can be used to combine different degree levels. For data related to other states, please follow this link.

Related articles: 
Nebraska Brain Drain Migration and Ed. Attainment, 2015 United States ACS