Dataset

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The tables that were changed (this is table 34):

0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467
0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629
1144 1227 1231

This dataset consists of a table of 39 rows and 17 columns.

As of March, except as noted (29.6 represents 29,600,000). Covers civilian noninstitutional population. Excludes members of Armed Forces except those living off post or with their families on post. Data for 1990 are based on 1980 census population controls; data for 2000, based on 1990 census population controls; Beginning 2005, data based on 2000 census population controls and an expanded sample of households. Based on Current Population Survey; see text of this section, and Appendix III

Footnotes

1. Represents those who completed 1 to 3 years of high school.
2. Represents those who completed 4 years of high school.
3. Represents those who completed 1 to 3 years of college.
4. Represents those who completed 4 years of college or more.
5. Annual averages of monthly figures. Source: U.S. Bureau of
   Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, January issues. Data beginning
   1990, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 not directly comparable with data for earlier years. See
   text, Section 12, Labor Force and February 1994, March 1996, February 1997-1999, and February 2003 issues
   of Employment and Earnings.
6. Poverty status based on income in preceding year.