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High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018 - (Percent)
County
Value
Adams
78.4
Alcorn
81.5
Amite
79.7
Attala
76.6
Benton
69.9
Bolivar
76.9
Calhoun
77.1
Carroll
81.7
Chickasaw
72.3
Choctaw
80.4
Claiborne
77.4
Clarke
81.0
Clay
81.6
Coahoma
78.7
Copiah
79.9
Covington
83.1
DeSoto
89.7
Forrest
87.0
Franklin
84.3
George
81.7
Greene
77.1
Grenada
80.0
Hancock
86.6
Harrison
87.1
Hinds
87.0
Holmes
75.1
Humphreys
71.2
Issaquena
70.2
Itawamba
78.5
Jackson
88.9
Jasper
83.1
Jefferson
74.8
Jefferson Davis
78.8
Jones
83.3
Kemper
83.3
Lafayette
89.5
Lamar
90.8
Lauderdale
85.5
Lawrence
83.2
Leake
77.3
Lee
83.8
Leflore
78.8
Lincoln
86.6
Lowndes
85.8
Madison
91.8
Marion
79.3
Marshall
81.3
Monroe
81.1
Montgomery
79.5
Neshoba
78.2
Newton
84.7
Noxubee
72.2
Oktibbeha
90.5
Panola
78.4
Pearl River
84.0
Perry
81.3
Pike
81.7
Pontotoc
76.6
Prentiss
78.7
Quitman
70.6
Rankin
89.5
Scott
74.3
Sharkey
73.7
Simpson
78.0
Smith
81.6
Stone
80.3
Sunflower
72.9
Tallahatchie
68.9
Tate
81.6
Tippah
77.6
Tishomingo
79.1
Tunica
81.5
Union
77.8
Walthall
80.5
Warren
87.2
Washington
78.5
Wayne
78.7
Webster
84.6
Wilkinson
72.0
Winston
79.8
Yalobusha
83.1
Yazoo
77.3
Value for Mississippi (Percent): 83.9%
Data item: High school graduate or higher, percent of persons age 25 years+, 2014-2018
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS), 5-Year Estimates. The PRCS is part of the Census Bureau's ACS, customized for Puerto Rico. Both Surveys are updated every year.
Definition
High School Graduates include people whose highest degree was a high school diploma or its equivalent, people who attended college but did not receive a degree, and people who received an associate's, bachelor's, master's, or professional or doctorate degree. People who reported completing the 12th grade but not receiving a diploma are not included. Persons with a Bachelor's Degree or Higher are those who have received a bachelor's degree from a college or university, or a master's, professional, or doctorate degree. For the complete definition, go to ACS subject definitions "Educational Attainment."
These data include only persons 25 years old and over. The percentages are obtained by dividing the counts of graduates by the total number of persons 25 years old and over.
Source and Accuracy
This Fact is based on data collected in the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) conducted annually by the U.S. Census Bureau. A sample of over 3.5 million housing unit addresses is interviewed each year over a 12 month period. This Fact (estimate) is based on five years of ACS and PRCS sample data and describes the average value of person, household and housing unit characteristics over this period of collection.
Statistics from all surveys are subject to sampling and nonsampling error. Sampling error is the uncertainty between an estimate based on a sample and the corresponding value that would be obtained if the estimate were based on the entire population (as from a census). Measures of sampling error are provided in the form of margins of error for all estimates included with ACS and PRCS published products. The Census Bureau recommends that data users incorporate this information into their analyses, as sampling error in survey estimates could impact the conclusions drawn from the results. The data for each geographic area are presented together with margins of error at Using margins of errors. A more detailed explanation of margins of error and a demonstration of how to use them is provided below.
For more information on sampling and estimation methodology, confidentiality, and sampling and nonsampling errors, please see the Multiyear Accuracy (US) and the Multiyear Accuracy (Puerto Rico) documents at "Documentation - Accuracy of the data."
Margin of Error
As mentioned above, ACS estimates are based on a sample and are subject to sampling error. The margin of error measures the degree of uncertainty caused by sampling error. The margin of error is used with an ACS estimate to construct a confidence interval about the estimate. The interval is formed by adding the margin of error to the estimate (the upper bound) and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate (the lower bound). It is expected with 90 percent confidence that the interval will contain the full population value of the estimate. The following example is for demonstrating purposes only. Suppose the ACS reported that the percentage of people in a state who were 25 years and older with a bachelor's degree was 21.3 percent and that the margin of error associated with this estimate was 0.7 percent. By adding and subtracting the margin of error from the estimate, we calculate the 90-percent confidence interval for this estimate:
Therefore, we can be 90 percent confident that the percent of the population 25 years and older having a bachelor's degree in a state falls somewhere between 20.6 percent and 22.0 percent.
