Table 4.17
Educational attainment of the employed, by gender and nativity, 2011
| Percent of employment | Native born |
Foreign born |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | All | |||
| Highest degree attained | |||||
| Less than high school | 10.2% | 6.5% | 8.4% | 5.1% | 25.9% |
| High school/GED | 30.2 | 25.6 | 28.0 | 28.4 | 25.7 |
| Some college | 19.0 | 20.5 | 19.7 | 21.3 | 11.3 |
| Associate degree | 9.3 | 12.2 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 6.9 |
| College degree | 20.8 | 23.1 | 21.9 | 22.7 | 17.9 |
| Advanced degree* | 10.6 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 11.1 | 12.3 |
| Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Cumulative education level | |||||
| High school or less | 40.4% | 32.1% | 36.4% | 33.5% | 51.6% |
| Less than a college degree | 68.6 | 64.8 | 66.8 | 66.2 | 69.8 |
| College degree or more | 31.4 | 35.2 | 33.2 | 33.8 | 30.2 |
| Advanced degree* | 10.6 | 12.1 | 11.3 | 11.1 | 12.3 |
* Includes law degrees, Ph.D.s, M.B.A.s, and similar degrees
Source: Authors' analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group microdata
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