The Preview discusses the choice of going to college or not. Use the internet to examine the number of people who choose to attend college. The frame above is the table of contents and data found in the Statistical Abstract of the United States. Click on the table for Education Attainment. Use the data in this table to create a graph.

Plot the percentage of each group that had 4 years or more of college on the vertical axis. Plot the year on the horizontal axis.

Questions

1. Which group has the highest percentage with 4 or more years of college?
2. What could explain the difference between males and females?
3. Which two races have the greatest differentials between males and females in educational attainment?