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Educational Attainment by Age Data

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Description

The educational attainment by age dataset shows American Community Survey (ACS) data for population by year, county, gender, age, and educational attainment for the most recent ACS dataset. The ACS sorts respondents into five different age categories and seven different educational attainment categories. Data comes from the ACS 5-year surveys and goes back to 2009.

Use Cases

Questions answered by this dataset:

  • Which counties have the highest proportion of people under 35 with a college degree?
  • In which counties are women earning degrees earlier than men?
  • What is the average age for a woman to get her bachelor's degree in Pennsylvania?

Metrics

  • Population: population for the given category

Filters

  • Year (2009 - most recent data)
  • Area (County)
  • Gender
  • Age (five age categories)
  • Educational attainment (seven attainment categories)

Core LMI Metadata

This dataset is offered via the Core LMI API. The metadata for this Core LMI API dataset is below.

AttributeDescription
Dataset IDEMSI.us.EducationalAttainment.Age
Dataset URLhttps://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.us.EducationalAttainment.Age/{version}
Area Aggregation Path

The area aggregation path refers to the hierarchy that shows how data is aggregated, starting from the lowest-level geography and progressing to the highest-level geography.

The levels in the aggregation path include:

Aggregation Path

1234

Level

1NationMetropolitan USNationMetropolitan US
2StateMSAStateMSA
3CountyCountyCountyCounty
4Zip CodeZip CodeCensus TractCensus Tract

Datasets with lower granularity aggregates only up to Level 1

Versions

http://agnitio.emsicloud.com/meta/dataset/EMSI.us.EducationalAttainment.Age/2025.4

Metrics

[
{
  "name": "Population.2009"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2010"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2011"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2012"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2013"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2014"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2015"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2016"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2017"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2018"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2019"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2020"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2021"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2022"
},
{
  "name": "Population.2023"
}
]

Dimensions

[
{
  "name": "AgeGroup",
  "levelsStored": [
     "1",
     "2"
  ]
},
{
  "name": "Area",
  "levelsStored": [
     "1",
     "2",
     "3"
  ]
},
{
  "name": "EducationLevel",
  "levelsStored": [
     "1",
     "2"
  ]
},
{
  "name": "Gender",
  "levelsStored": [
     "1",
     "2"
  ]
}
]

Attributes

{
"minYearInclusive": "2009",
"name": "EducationalAttainment.Age",
"path": "EducationalAttainment.Age",
"type": "dataset",
"maxYearInclusive": "2023",
"description": "# Description\n\nThe educational attainment by age dataset shows American Community Survey (ACS) data for population by year, county, gender, age, and educational attainment for the most recent ACS dataset. The ACS sorts respondents into five different age categories and seven different educational attainment categories. Data comes from the ACS 5-year surveys and goes back to 2009.\n\n# Use Cases\n\n#### Questions answered by this dataset:\n\n* Which counties have the highest proportion of people under 35 with a college degree?\n* In which counties are women earning degrees earlier than men?\n* What is the average age for a woman to get her bachelor's degree in Pennsylvania?\n\n# Metrics\n\n* Population: population for the given category\n\n# Filters\n\n* Year (2009 - most recent data)\n* Area (County)\n* Gender\n* Age (five age categories)\n* Educational attainment (seven attainment categories)\n",
"currentYear": "2023",
"countryCode": "us",
"datarun": "2025.4",
"displayName": "US Educational Attainment by Age",
"releaseDate": "2025-09-11 21:00:02.1595167Z"
}

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