Table 1. Educational Attainment for Selected Ancestry Groups Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Internet Release date: February 18, 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Percent |Percent |Percent |Persons |high school |bachelor's |graduate |25 years |diploma |degree |degree Ancestry |and over |or higher |or higher |or higher --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All persons 158,868,436 75.2 20.3 7.2 Albanian 24,555 68.0 21.5 8.3 American 7,772,841 62.7 9.3 2.9 Armenian 186,469 76.0 28.6 11.0 Assyrian 28,844 64.3 18.5 6.5 Australian 22,663 85.6 31.8 13.2 Austrian 443,870 86.0 37.3 17.2 Barbadian 24,457 71.8 15.8 6.1 Basque 25,371 85.3 30.3 11.0 Belgian 177,371 81.0 23.2 8.8 Belizean 12,437 69.3 9.4 3.0 Brazilian 33,480 78.1 27.7 10.9 British West Indian 24,996 70.1 16.0 7.0 Bulgarian 15,463 83.4 30.9 14.9 Cajun 357,535 67.7 11.8 3.4 Canadian 262,155 77.7 22.2 8.6 Cape Verdean 27,203 58.7 9.2 2.8 Croatian 292,259 74.1 18.9 6.9 Czech 538,078 80.6 23.6 8.4 Czechoslovakian 195,418 82.6 29.5 11.0 Danish 697,668 87.0 27.4 9.4 Dutch 2,433,010 76.8 18.5 6.4 Dutch West Indian 23,067 66.9 9.6 2.7 Egyptian 45,689 91.6 60.4 25.6 English 16,364,356 84.2 28.4 10.3 Estonian 16,124 88.3 41.0 18.2 Ethiopian 21,012 80.3 29.5 11.8 Finnish 317,014 84.0 24.2 8.1 French 4,147,969 79.0 18.2 6.1 French Canadian 1,183,615 77.2 16.7 5.5 German 29,483,562 82.7 22.0 7.3 Greek 607,249 77.9 28.0 10.7 Guyanese 46,441 69.8 15.3 4.9 Haitian 163,990 58.0 12.2 4.4 Hungarian 735,880 80.8 26.8 11.5 Icelander 18,456 89.7 33.5 12.6 Iranian 140,021 90.8 56.2 26.0 Iraqi 12,849 74.2 34.2 17.0 Irish 15,416,152 79.6 21.2 7.2 Israeli 38,261 87.3 42.3 21.4 Italian 7,516,642 77.3 21.0 7.4 Jamaican 261,804 68.9 15.6 5.2 Latvian 59,228 89.6 43.8 20.4 Lebanese 203,212 83.9 34.6 14.0 Lithuanian 407,167 81.9 31.4 13.6 Luxemburger 22,830 82.3 29.6 9.8 Maltese 19,903 76.3 16.0 5.4 Nigerian 52,388 87.6 52.9 26.3 Norwegian 1,745,104 85.9 26.0 8.2 Palestinian 24,676 79.3 36.5 15.4 Pennsylvania German 185,080 63.4 7.9 2.7 Polish 4,512,634 78.5 23.1 9.0 Portuguese 589,789 61.1 11.9 3.6 Romanian 179,715 82.7 35.6 18.1 Russian 1,620,535 90.8 49.0 24.3 Scotch-Irish 3,285,577 85.3 28.2 10.1 Scottish 2,467,047 88.6 33.6 12.2 Serbian 66,078 77.5 26.5 10.8 Slavic 29,216 80.5 29.6 11.2 Slovak 898,926 78.2 21.6 7.6 Slovene 69,072 74.7 23.8 9.0 Swedish 2,033,196 87.3 27.4 9.1 Swiss 439,001 85.6 32.4 12.4 Syrian 64,137 80.5 29.3 12.1 Trinidadian and Tobagonian 47,980 74.2 16.2 5.8 Turkish 44,872 81.4 40.9 22.1 Ukrainian 389,597 77.5 28.3 12.0 Welsh 778,157 88.7 31.8 11.6 Yugoslavian 129,277 75.4 23.8 7.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------