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What type of program are you currently pursuing?
Type of education program currently pursued · Asked in 9 waves, 2017–2025 · 6,754 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Version of ED0B first asked in 2017: wording or answer options differ from shed:ED0B.
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | High school or GED program | Non-degree training program |
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| Poll | Field dates | Mode | Respondents | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SHED 2025 12 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2025-10-17 to 2025-10-28 | web | 12,934 | 858 |
| SHED 2024 8 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2024-10-18 to 2024-10-31 | web | 12,295 | 800 |
| SHED 2023 3 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2023-10-20 to 2023-11-05 | web | 11,400 | 698 |
| SHED 2022 12 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2022-10-21 to 2022-11-01 | web | 11,667 | 709 |
| SHED 2021 8 imputed values recoded to -1. | 2021-11-01 to 2021-11-30 | web | 11,874 | 704 |
| SHED 2020 | 2020-11-01 to 2020-11-30 | web | 11,648 | 871 |
| SHED 2019 | 2019-10-01 to 2019-10-31 | web | 12,173 | 739 |
| SHED 2018 | 2018-10-01 to 2018-11-30 | web | 11,316 | 680 |
| SHED 2017 |
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.
| Certificate or technical degree |
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| Associate degree |
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| Bachelor’s degree |
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| Master’s degree |
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| Professional degree (e.g., MBA, MD, JD) |
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| Doctoral degree |
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| MoE |
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| All respondents | 8% | 4% | 11% | 14% | 43% | 12% | 4% | 4% | 858 | ±4 | |
| Less than high school † | 93% | 3% | 4% | – | – | – | – | – | 29 | ±20 | |
| High school † | 75% | 25% | – | – | – | – | – | – | 37 | ±18 | |
| Some college | 0% | 2% | 12% | 21% | 62% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 505 | ±5 | |
| Bachelor's | – | 4% | 10% | 5% | 17% | 50% | 9% | 6% | 199 | ±7 | |
| Postgraduate | 1% | 8% | 8% | 2% | 7% | 22% | 20% | 33% | 88 | ±11 |
SHED 2025 · US adults 18+. 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.
| 2017-11-01 to 2017-12-31 |
| web |
| 12,187 |
| 695 |