DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: United States
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
Subject Number Percent Subject Number Percent
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT       NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH    
     Population 3 years and over            Total poplulation 281,421,906 100.0
      enrolled in school 76,632,927 100.0   Native 250,314,017 88.9
Nursery school, preschool 4,957,582 6.5       Born in United States 246,786,466 87.7
Kindergarten 4,157,491 5.4           State of residence 168,729,388 60.0
Elementary school (grades 1-8) 33,653,641 43.9           Different state 78,057,078 27.7
High school (grades 9-12) 16,380,951 21.4       Born outside United States 3,527,551 1.3
College or graduate school 17,483,262 22.8   Foreign born 31,107,889 11.1
                Entered 1990 to March 2000 13,178,276 4.7
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT           Naturalized citizen 12,542,626 4.5
  Population 25 years and over 182,211,639 100.0       Not a citizen 18,565,263 6.6
Less than 9th grade 13,755,477 7.5        
9th to 12th grade, no diploma 21,960,148 12.1   REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN    
High school graduate (includes equivalency) 52,168,981 28.6     Total (excluding born at sea) 31,107,573 100.0
Some college, no degree 38,351,595 21.0   Europe 4,915,557 15.8
Associate degree 11,512,833 6.3   Asia 8,226,254 26.4
Bachelor's degree 28,317,792 15.5   Africa 881,300 2.8
Graduate or professional degree 16,144,813 8.9   Oceania 168,046 0.5
        Latin America 16,086,974 51.7
Percent high school graduate or higher 80.4 (X)   Northern America 829,442 2.7
Percent bachelor's degree or higher 24.4 (X)        
        LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME    
MARITAL STATUS                 Population 5 years and over 262,375,152 100.0
          Population 15 years and over 221,148,671 100.0   English only 215,423,557 82.1
Never married 59,913,370 27.1   Language other than English 46,951,595 17.9
Now married, except separated 120,231,273 54.4           Speak English less than '"very well"' 21,320,407 8.1
Separated 4,769,220 2.2   Spanish 28,101,052 10.7
Widowed 14,674,500 6.6           Speak English less than '"very well"' 13,751,256 5.2
 Female 11,975,325 5.4   Other Indo-European languages 10,017,989 3.8
Divorced 21,560,308 9.7           Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,390,301 1.3
 Female 12,305,294 5.6   Asian and Pacific Island languages 6,960,065 2.7
                Speak English less than '"very well"' 3,590,024 1.4
GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS            
          Grandparent living in household       ANCESTRY (single and multiple)    
           with one or more own grandchildren                 Total population 281,421,906 100.0
           under 18 years 5,771,671 100.0     Total ancestries reported 287,304,886 102.1
Grandparent responsible for grandchildren 2,426,730 42.0   Arab 1,202,871 0.4
        Czech¹ 1,703,930 0.6
VETERAN STATUS       Danish 1,430,897 0.5
          Civilian population 18 years and over 208,130,352 100.0   Dutch 4,542,494 1.6
Civilian veterans 26,403,703 12.7   English 24,515,138 8.7
        French (except Basque)¹ 8,325,509 3.0
DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN       French Canadian¹ 2,435,098 0.9
 NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION       German 42,885,162 15.2
     Population 5 to 20 years 64,689,357 100.0   Greek 1,153,307 0.4
With a disability 5,214,334 8.1   Hungarian 1,398,724 0.5
     Population 21 to 64 years 159,131,544 100.0   Irish¹ 30,594,130 10.9
With a disability 30,553,796 19.2   Italian 15,723,555 5.6
 Percent employed 56.6 (X)   Lithuanian 659,992 0.2
No disability 128,577,748 80.8   Norwegian 4,477,725 1.6
 Percent employed 77.2 (X)   Polish 8,977,444 3.2
     Population 65 years and over 33,346,626 100.0   Portuguese 1,177,112 0.4
With a disability 13,978,118 41.9   Russian 2,652,214 0.9
        Scotch-Irish 4,319,232 1.5
        Scottish 4,890,581 1.7
RESIDENCE IN 1995       Slovak 797,764 0.3
  Population 5 years and over 262,375,152 100.0   Subsaharan African 1,781,877 0.6
Same house in 1995 142,027,478 54.1   Swedish 3,998,310 1.4
Different house in the U.S. in 1995 112,851,828 43.0   Swiss 911,502 0.3
 Same county 65,435,013 24.9   Ukrainian 892,922 0.3
 Different county 47,416,815 18.1   United States or American 20,625,093 7.3
  Same state 25,327,355 9.7   Welsh 1,753,794 0.6
  Different state 22,089,460 8.4   West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) 1,869,504 0.7
Elsewhere in 1995 7,495,846 2.9   Other ancestries 91,609,005 32.6
 
Date: September 10, 2003
 
-Represent zero or rounds to zero.    (X) Not applicable.
¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic.
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000.