{"id":539,"date":"2003-10-06T19:04:03","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T02:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=539"},"modified":"2003-10-06T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T02:04:03","slug":"party-affiliation-versus-education-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2003\/10\/06\/party-affiliation-versus-education-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Affiliation Versus Education Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ages I have searched the net for charts of party affiliation versus education level (highest degree attained.) Well, thanks to Berkeley’s SDA I was able to produce this chart myself! Click below to see tha table
\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Frequency Distribution<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0
LT HIGH SCHOOL<\/td>\n		1
HIGH SCHOOL<\/td>\n		2
JUNIOR COLLEGE<\/td>\n		3
BACHELOR<\/td>\n		4
GRADUATE<\/td>\n		ROW
TOTAL<\/em><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/th>\n0: STRONG DEMOCRAT<\/td>\n23.5<\/strong>
2,408<\/td>\n		13.6<\/strong>
2,861<\/td>\n		13.1<\/strong>
234<\/td>\n		11.1<\/strong>
575<\/td>\n		15.4<\/strong>
359<\/td>\n		15.9<\/strong><\/em>
6,437<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1: NOT STR DEMOCRAT<\/td>\n25.3<\/strong>
2,592<\/td>\n		22.8<\/strong>
4,799<\/td>\n		21.0<\/strong>
376<\/td>\n		19.2<\/strong>
995<\/td>\n		20.0<\/strong>
466<\/td>\n		22.7<\/strong><\/em>
9,228<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2: IND,NEAR DEM<\/td>\n9.7<\/strong>
993<\/td>\n		12.7<\/strong>
2,666<\/td>\n		13.5<\/strong>
242<\/td>\n		12.6<\/strong>
656<\/td>\n		14.6<\/strong>
341<\/td>\n		12.1<\/strong><\/em>
4,898<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3: INDEPENDENT<\/td>\n14.6<\/strong>
1,495<\/td>\n		14.1<\/strong>
2,955<\/td>\n		13.5<\/strong>
242<\/td>\n		9.7<\/strong>
501<\/td>\n		9.6<\/strong>
225<\/td>\n		13.3<\/strong><\/em>
5,418<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4: IND,NEAR REP<\/td>\n6.3<\/strong>
643<\/td>\n		9.4<\/strong>
1,985<\/td>\n		9.3<\/strong>
167<\/td>\n		11.4<\/strong>
590<\/td>\n		10.7<\/strong>
250<\/td>\n		9.0<\/strong><\/em>
3,635<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5: NOT STR REPUBLICAN<\/td>\n12.1<\/strong>
1,243<\/td>\n		17.4<\/strong>
3,656<\/td>\n		16.6<\/strong>
297<\/td>\n		20.8<\/strong>
1,077<\/td>\n		16.0<\/strong>
373<\/td>\n		16.4<\/strong><\/em>
6,646<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6: STRONG REPUBLICAN<\/td>\n7.3<\/strong>
750<\/td>\n		8.6<\/strong>
1,817<\/td>\n		10.9<\/strong>
195<\/td>\n		13.8<\/strong>
716<\/td>\n		11.7<\/strong>
272<\/td>\n		9.2<\/strong><\/em>
3,750<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7: OTHER PARTY<\/td>\n1.3<\/strong>
133<\/td>\n		1.3<\/strong>
282<\/td>\n		2.0<\/strong>
36<\/td>\n		1.5<\/strong>
76<\/td>\n		2.1<\/strong>
48<\/td>\n		1.4<\/strong><\/em>
575<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
COL TOTAL<\/em><\/th>\n100.0<\/strong><\/em>
10,257<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
21,021<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
1,789<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
5,186<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
2,334<\/em><\/td>\n		100.0<\/strong><\/em>
40,587<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The data is taken from GSS 1972-2000 cumulative survey. My interest in this chart was mainly for the anecdotal evidence that Democrats draw mostly from those with little education and with a graduate degree, while Republicans draw from the middle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ages I have searched the net for charts of party affiliation versus education level (highest degree attained.) Well, thanks to Berkeley’s SDA I was able to produce this chart myself! Click below to see tha table<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}