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In what year did you receive the (COLLEGE NAME) degree? F. IF YES: What institution was that?
First postsecondary institution attended for credit · Asked in 3 waves, 2012–2016 · 1,267 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Social Survey 2016 | 2016-04-05 to 2016-11-19 | face to face | 2,867 | 524 |
| General Social Survey 2014 | 2014-03-31 to 2014-10-13 | face to face | 2,538 | 456 |
| General Social Survey 2012 | 2012-03-20 to 2012-09-05 | face to face | 1,974 | 287 |
Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Jail/prison | High school | Company/business | Vocational school/trades/technical (not high school, not college) | Secretarial school | Adult education/school | Medical/nursing/health/dental/hospital | Union | Armed forces | College/university | Art/design | Business college (not business school at a university) | Home study/correspondence | Job corp | Beauty school/cosmetology | Insurance, real estate, finance, executive management | Police/fire academy; training | Development center | Career center | Foreign college/university | Other | Unable to code response, unclear, not identifiable | n | MoE | |
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| All respondents | – | 2% | 2% | 12% | 1% | 0% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 48% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 1% | 4% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 3% | 6% | 6% | 524 | ±5 | |
| Northeast | – | 5% | 4% | 16% | – | – | 3% | – | – | 42% | 1% | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Midwest | – | 2% | – | 9% | – | – | 4% | – | 2% | 52% | – | 4% | |||||||||||||
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| West | – | 3% | 4% | 12% | 1% |
General Social Survey 2016 · US adults 18+ living in households (English, and Spanish since 2006). Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.
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