United States - Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2005

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Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2005

Data Set: 2005 American Community Survey
Survey: American Community Survey

Demographic - Sex and Age, Race, Relationship, Household by Type
Social - Education, Marital Status, Fertility, Grandparents...
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NOTE. Data are limited to the household population and exclude the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see Survey Methodology.

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2005	Estimate	Margin of Error
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT
Population 3 years and over enrolled in school	75,919,435	+/-94,664
Nursery school, preschool	4,785,409	+/-39,114
Kindergarten	3,964,774	+/-33,735
Elementary school (grades 1-8)	32,121,770	+/-50,975
High school (grades 9-12)	17,008,891	+/-47,258
College or graduate school	18,038,591	+/-70,057

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
Population 25 years and over	188,950,759	+/-39,877
Less than 9th grade	11,793,051	+/-76,272
9th to 12th grade, no diploma	17,989,278	+/-81,287
High school graduate (includes equivalency)	55,856,936	+/-143,204
Some college, no degree	37,984,610	+/-103,636
Associate's degree	13,960,054	+/-69,025
Bachelor's degree	32,536,186	+/-118,533
Graduate or professional degree	18,830,644	+/-86,349

Percent high school graduate or higher	84.2%	+/-0.1
Percent bachelor's degree or higher	27.2%	+/-0.1

MARITAL STATUS
Males 15 years and over	110,298,693	+/-20,137
Never married	34,171,130	+/-81,645
Now married, except separated	61,663,386	+/-125,943
Separated	1,978,838	+/-28,212
Widowed	2,672,437	+/-28,847
Divorced	9,812,902	+/-61,997

Females 15 years and over	117,499,798	+/-20,223
Never married	29,943,646	+/-74,944
Now married, except separated	59,916,721	+/-128,608
Separated	3,069,996	+/-35,578
Widowed	11,060,297	+/-37,845
Divorced	13,509,138	+/-61,888

FERTILITY
Number of women 15 to 50 years old who had a birth in the past 12 months	4,247,399	+/-36,207
Unmarried women (widowed, divorced, and never married)	1,300,312	+/-23,739
Per 1,000 unmarried women	37	+/-1
Per 1,000 women 15 to 50 years old	57	+/-1
Per 1,000 women 15 to 19 years old	31	+/-1
Per 1,000 women 20 to 34 years old	108	+/-1
Per 1,000 women 35 to 50 years old	23	+/-1

GRANDPARENTS
Number of grandparents living with own grandchildren under 18 years in households	5,742,583	+/-53,491
Responsible for grandchildren	2,458,806	+/-37,832
Years responsible for grandchildren
Less than 1 year	533,559	+/-14,384
1 or 2 years	594,911	+/-15,339
3 or 4 years	418,325	+/-11,014
5 or more years	912,011	+/-20,383

Characteristics of grandparents responsible for own grandchildren under 18 years
Who are female	62.8%	+/-0.3
Who are married	71.1%	+/-0.5

VETERAN STATUS
Civilian population 18 years and over	214,524,444	+/-18,771
Civilian veterans	23,427,584	+/-66,828

DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION
Population 5 years and over	267,387,983	+/-18,647
With a disability	39,740,709	+/-114,688

Population 5 to 15 years	44,586,147	+/-33,211
With a disability	2,886,534	+/-29,073

Population 16 to 64 years	188,041,309	+/-35,238
With a disability	22,790,299	+/-89,803

Population 65 years and over	34,760,527	+/-15,554
With a disability	14,063,876	+/-46,654

RESIDENCE 1 YEAR AGO
Population 1 year and over	284,366,827	+/-31,755
Same house	238,488,435	+/-331,755
Different house in the U.S.	44,116,146	+/-322,026
Same county	28,195,874	+/-234,655
Different county	15,920,272	+/-126,452
Same state	8,868,144	+/-94,120
Different state	7,052,128	+/-73,066
Abroad	1,762,246	+/-38,472

PLACE OF BIRTH
Total population	288,378,137	*****
Native	252,688,295	+/-131,480
Born in United States	249,119,844	+/-129,198
State of residence	170,473,495	+/-157,459
Different state	78,646,349	+/-149,013
Born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island areas, or born abroad to American parent(s)	3,568,451	+/-33,395
Foreign born	35,689,842	+/-131,480

U.S. CITIZENSHIP STATUS
Foreign-born population	35,689,842	+/-131,480
Naturalized U.S. citizen	14,967,828	+/-83,616
Not a U.S. citizen	20,722,014	+/-136,331

YEAR OF ENTRY
Population born outside the United States	39,258,293	+/-129,198

Native	3,568,451	+/-33,395
Entered 2000 or later	447,811	+/-15,851
Entered before 2000	3,120,640	+/-33,172

Foreign born	35,689,842	+/-131,480
Entered 2000 or later	7,939,822	+/-90,590
Entered before 2000	27,750,020	+/-106,918

WORLD REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN
Foreign-born population, excluding population born at sea	35,689,467	+/-131,450
Europe	4,869,898	+/-52,244
Asia	9,534,429	+/-43,991
Africa	1,252,020	+/-31,719
Oceania	185,466	+/-9,417
Latin America	19,018,949	+/-99,773
Northern America	828,705	+/-19,027

LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME
Population 5 years and over	268,110,961	+/-12,409
English only	216,176,111	+/-137,591
Language other than English	51,934,850	+/-136,055
Speak English less than "very well"	23,142,029	+/-103,703
Spanish	32,184,293	+/-77,804
Speak English less than "very well"	15,396,674	+/-76,406
Other Indo-European languages	9,929,004	+/-85,456
Speak English less than "very well"	3,302,077	+/-49,865
Asian and Pacific Islander languages	7,769,500	+/-52,731
Speak English less than "very well"	3,828,819	+/-45,448
Other languages	2,052,053	+/-38,282
Speak English less than "very well"	614,459	+/-20,653

ANCESTRY
Total population	288,378,137	*****
American	20,535,853	+/-102,364
Arab	1,400,345	+/-38,058
Czech	1,555,767	+/-22,780
Danish	1,434,060	+/-26,078
Dutch	5,079,268	+/-47,629
English	27,761,546	+/-118,833
French (except Basque)	9,529,969	+/-69,500
French Canadian	2,265,648	+/-28,094
German	49,178,839	+/-124,949
Greek	1,291,381	+/-26,626
Hungarian	1,521,762	+/-29,385
Irish	34,668,723	+/-114,369
Italian	17,235,187	+/-87,320
Lithuanian	712,332	+/-17,293
Norwegian	4,601,154	+/-37,058
Polish	9,770,544	+/-71,429
Portuguese	1,378,995	+/-29,174
Russian	3,009,876	+/-39,675
Scotch-Irish	5,289,309	+/-49,031
Scottish	5,858,678	+/-50,946
Slovak	819,412	+/-18,760
Subsaharan African	2,262,558	+/-46,587
Swedish	4,259,792	+/-42,510
Swiss	1,017,277	+/-25,625
Ukrainian	963,263	+/-24,583
Welsh	1,928,031	+/-28,163
West Indian (excluding Hispanic origin groups)	2,233,125	+/-39,654

Selected Social Characteristics in the United States: 2005	Estimate	Margin of Error

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 American Community Survey

Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate arising from sampling variability is represented through the use of a margin of error. The value shown here is the 90 percent margin of error. The margin of error can be interpreted roughly as providing a 90 percent probability that the interval defined by the estimate minus the margin of error and the estimate plus the margin of error (the lower and upper confidence bounds) contains the true value. In addition to sampling variability, the ACS estimates are subject to nonsampling error (for a discussion of nonsampling variability, see Accuracy of the Data). The effect of nonsampling error is not represented in these tables.

Notes:
�Ancestry listed in this table refers to the total number of people who responded with a particular ancestry; for example, the estimate given for Russian represents the number of people who listed Russian as either their first or second ancestry. This table lists only the largest ancestry groups; see the Detailed Tables for more categories. Race and Hispanic origin groups are not included in this table because official data for those groups come from the Race and Hispanic origin questions rather than the ancestry question (see Demographic Table).
�The Census Bureau introduced a new skip pattern for the disability questions in the 2003 ACS questionnaire. This change mainly affected two individual items -- go-outside-home disability and employment disability -- and the recode for disability status, which includes the two items. Accordingly, comparisons of data from 2003 or later with data from prior years are not recommended for the relevant questions. For more information, see the ACS Subject Definitions for Disability.
�Data for year of entry of the native population reflect the year of entry into the U.S. by people who were born in Puerto Rico, U.S. Island Areas or born outside the U.S. to a U.S. citizen parent and who subsequently moved to the U.S.

Explanation of Symbols:
1. An '*' entry in the margin of error column indicates that too few sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
2. An '**' entry in the margin of error column indicates that no sample observations were available to compute a standard error and thus the margin of error. A statistical test is not appropriate.
3. An '-' entry in the estimate column indicates that no sample observations were available to compute an estimate, or a ratio of medians cannot be calculated because one or both of the median estimates falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
4. An '-' following a median estimate means the median falls in the lowest interval of an open-ended distribution.
5. An '+' following a median estimate means the median falls in the upper interval of an open-ended distribution.
6. An '***' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the median falls in the lowest interval or upper interval of an open-ended distribution. A statistical test is not appropriate.
7. An '*****' entry in the margin of error column indicates that the estimate is controlled. A statistical test for sampling variability is not appropriate.
8. An 'N' entry in the estimate and margin of error columns indicates that data for this geographic area cannot be displayed because the number of sample cases is too small.
9. An '(X)' means that the estimate is not applicable or not available.

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