Monday, November 19, 2007

Percentage of women with disabilties in relation to receving an higher education

Some findings that I found was that minorities with disabilities are not encouraged to pursue a higher education. Also, I found that these minorities who were not encouraged to plan for a higher education were predominately women. According to the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, and National Postsecondary Student Aid Study reported as following:

Sex, age, race/ethnicity, and enrollment and
All students No disability With disability

Gender
Female 44.3 43.5 57.2
Male 55.7 56.6 42.8

Age (years)
15–23 15.1 15.6 7.5
24–29 44.8 45.0 41.4
39 and older 40.1 39.4 51.1

Race/ethnicity
White 59.7 59.0 70.5
Asian 22.4 23.3 9.4
Black 7.1 7.2 5.5
Hispanic 6.3 6.2 8.5
American Indian/ 0.6 0.6 0.0
Native Hawaiian/ 0.7 0.8 0.0
Other 1.4 1.5 0.6


Mostly full time 70.0 70.4 64.9
Mostly part time 25.9 25.4 32.3

Citizenship status
U.S. citizen 73.0 72.0 88.1
Resident alien 5.8 5.8 5.8
Foreign/ 21.2 22.2 6.1
International Student

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