Educational Attainment of Nebraska's Working Age Population via 2016-12 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


This is a data release for Nebraska's working age population.  The working age is defined as 22 to 64 inclusive. The data is based on the PUMS (Public Use Micro Sample) data released by the US Census' American Community Survey.

The table below presented the number of people with various educational attainment with the age between 22 and 64.

Ed. Attainment	Population	Low(90%MOE)	Hi(90%MOE)	Percent
1. LssHsDgr	87,691	85,034	90,348	8.5%
2. HsDgrEqv	241,063	236,468	245,658	23.4%
3. SomeCllg	250,798	245,393	256,203	24.4%
4. AssctDgr	116,124	112,680	119,568	11.3%
5. BchlrDgr	234,181	228,870	239,492	22.7%
6. Mstr	71,874	69,336	74,412	7.0%
7. FP	16,806	15,641	17,971	1.6%
8. Drs	11,309	10,230	12,388	1.1%

Detailed data with sampling weights can be download from here located in Google Drive. The weights can allow users to aggregate the presented educational attainment levels.