Online Tool: Educational Attainment by State, Gender, and Age Group, 2006 – 2013

Increasing the educational attainment of U.S. residents has become a primary goal of state and national higher education, but with relatively less attention paid to gender attainment gap. This tool reveals that that the attainment gap between the gender has been gradually growing in many states, especially among young adults.

This online tool uses Tableau public software to illustrate the trends in attainment rate by gender and age group, along with margin of error (at a 90% confidence level) from 2006-2013.

Source: Postsecondary Analytics summary of American Community Survey (ACS) one-year public use microdata samples (PUMS). The upper and lower bands show the margin of error at 90% confidence level. US total includes 50 states and the District of Columbia.