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People 25 Years and Over Who Have Completed an Associate's Degree or Higher (5-year estimate) in Polk County, IA (S1501ACSTOTAL019153)

Observations

2024: 50.30000
Updated: Jan 29, 2026 9:28 AM CST
2024:  50.30000  
2023:  49.40000  
2022:  49.20000  
2021:  48.30000  
2020:  47.60000  

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Not Seasonally Adjusted

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Title Release Dates
People 25 Years and Over Who Have Completed an Associate's Degree or Higher (5-year estimate) in Polk County, IA 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Source    
U.S. Census Bureau 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Release    
Educational Attainment 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Units    
Percent 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Frequency    
Annual 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Seasonal Adjustment    
Not Seasonally Adjusted 2016-12-08 2026-01-29
 
Notes    
Estimate of educational attainment for population 25 years old and over using 5 years of data. The percent of the population who has completed an Associate's degree or higher is calculated by FRED by adding the following variables from the 5-year American Community Survey (ACS) percent of the population with an Associate's Degree, percent of the population with a Bachelor's degree, and percent of the population with a Graduate or Professional degree. (ACS variables S1501_C02_011E, S1501_C02_012E, S1501_C02_013E from table S1501.)

For more information about the subject definitions, see: https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/code-lists.html.

Multiyear estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) are "period" estimates derived from a data sample collected over a period of time, as opposed to "point-in-time" estimates such as those from past decennial censuses. ACS 5-year estimates include data collected over a 60-month period. The date associated with the data is the end of the 5-year period. For example, a value dated 2014 represents data from 2010 to 2014. However, the value does not describe any specific day, month, or year within that time period.

Multiyear estimates require some additional considerations. For example, multiyear estimates released in consecutive years consist mostly of overlapping years and shared data. The 2010-2014 ACS 5-year estimates share sample data from 2011 through 2014 with the 2011-2015 ACS 5-year estimates. Because of this overlap, users should use extreme caution in making comparisons with consecutive years of multiyear estimates.

Please see the ACS handbook (Section 3, "Understanding and Using ACS Single-Year and Multiyear Estimates," p. 13) for a comprehensive set of details and clarifications: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/acs_general_handbook_2018.pdf

2016-12-08 2026-01-29

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