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Educational attainment rises across the 15-year period, with the share of adults 25+ holding at least a bachelor’s degree increasing by about five percentage points. 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Since 2010, the ACS has published estimates using 5 years of data for all geographic areas down to the census tract and block-group levels. For the first time ever, these 5-year estimates are available for three consecutive nonoverlapping periods (2005–2009, 2010–2014, and 2015–2019), thus providing trend data for small population groups and geographies covering a combined 15-year period.1 This report uses the 2005–2009, 2010–2014, and 2015–2019 ACS 5-year estimates to investigate bachelor’s degree attainment.2, 3  \nBachelor’s degrees are important marks of progress for both individuals and society. Compared with noncollege graduates, individuals who hold a bachelor’s degree have higher lifetime earnings, lower odds of unemployment, and better health outcomes.4 In this brief, we present findings for national-and county-level changes in bachelor’s  \n¹ For more information about comparing 5-year estimates, see“Understanding and Using American Community Survey Data: What All Data Users Need to Know” at \u003C[www.census.gov/programs-surveys](www.census.gov/programs-surveys)[ ](www.census.gov/programs-surveys)[/acs/guidance/handbooks/general.html](/acs/guidance/handbooks/general.html)> .  \n2 Estimates presented here do not reflect the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact.  \n3 To examine this topic further by Hispanic origin and race, seethe interactive data visualization,“Percentage of Population Aged 25 Years and Over With a Bachelor’s Degree or Higher: 2015–2019” at \u003C[www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/acs-percentage](www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/acs-percentage)[-bachelors-degree-2015-2019.html](-bachelors-degree-2015-2019.html)> .  \n4 Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic,“Making College Worth It: A Review of Research on the Returns to Higher Education,”Working paper 19053, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013.  \ndegree attainment from 2005–2009 to 2015– 2019.5, 6  \nFINDINGS  \nNational  \nTable 1 presents national trends in educational attainment in the United States using three nonoverlapping ACS 5-year estimates for 2005–2009, 2010–2014, and 2015–2019. Specifically, Table 1 presents the percentage of the population 25 years and older with a bachelor’s degree or higher. Educational attainment in the United States increased over the 15-year period. The percentage of the population 25 years and older with at least a bachelor’s degree increased by about 5 percentage points (from 27.5 percent to 32.1 percent) from 2005–2009 to 2015–2019.  \nTable 1 also presents the percentage of people with a bachelor’s degree or higher by race and Hispanic origin. In the first 5-year estimate, there were differences in the percentage of people with bachelor’s degrees between race groups. From 2005–2009 to 2015–2019, the percentage of people with a bachelor’s degree increased for all groups. However, growth in bachelor’s degree attainment varied by race, with each race group following a different pattern. Table 1 shows that race groups with relatively low levels of bachelor’s degree attainment  \n5 Publicly available data products were used to derive estimates for each 5-year data set: 2005–2009 (B15002 and C15002A-I), 2010–2014 (S1501 and C15002A-I), and 2015–2019 (S1501) .  \n6 Margins of errors were derived using the ACS approximation method, see \u003C[www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library](www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library)[ ](www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library)[/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018_ch08.pdf](/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018_ch08.pdf)> .  \nin 2005–2009 experienced higher levels of growth (percent change) in attainment over the time ","cbCaid3PTcKGlS4U","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid3PTcKGlS4U","pdf",1517734,"English","# Introduction\n# Findings\n## National\n## County-Level Differences in Attainment\n# What Is the American Community Survey?","[{\"question\":\"Which ACS periods are analyzed for bachelor’s degree attainment?\",\"answer\":\"The report uses three nonoverlapping ACS 5-year estimates: 2005–2009, 2010–2014, and 2015–2019.\"},{\"question\":\"How much did bachelor’s degree attainment increase nationally from 2005–2009 to 2015–2019?\",\"answer\":\"The percentage of the population age 25 and older with at least a bachelor’s degree increased by about 5 percentage points, from 27.5% to 32.1%.\"},{\"question\":\"Do changes in attainment look the same across race and Hispanic origin groups?\",\"answer\":\"No. The share increases for all groups, but growth varies by race, with different percent-change patterns and different percentage-point increases across groups.\"}]","Bachelor’s Degree Attainment in the United States - 2005 to 2019 - American Community Survey Briefs | PDF",1792062055,18]