Party Affiliation Versus Education Level
Posted on 10/6/2003 by Dave Bacon
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
Frequency Distribution | 0
LT HIGH SCHOOL | 1
HIGH SCHOOL | 2
JUNIOR COLLEGE | 3
BACHELOR | 4
GRADUATE | ROW
TOTAL | 0: STRONG DEMOCRAT | 23.5
2,408 | 13.6
2,861 | 13.1
234 | 11.1
575 | 15.4
359 | 15.9
6,437 | | 1: NOT STR DEMOCRAT | 25.3
2,592 | 22.8
4,799 | 21.0
376 | 19.2
995 | 20.0
466 | 22.7
9,228 | | 2: IND,NEAR DEM | 9.7
993 | 12.7
2,666 | 13.5
242 | 12.6
656 | 14.6
341 | 12.1
4,898 | | 3: INDEPENDENT | 14.6
1,495 | 14.1
2,955 | 13.5
242 | 9.7
501 | 9.6
225 | 13.3
5,418 | | 4: IND,NEAR REP | 6.3
643 | 9.4
1,985 | 9.3
167 | 11.4
590 | 10.7
250 | 9.0
3,635 | | 5: NOT STR REPUBLICAN | 12.1
1,243 | 17.4
3,656 | 16.6
297 | 20.8
1,077 | 16.0
373 | 16.4
6,646 | | 6: STRONG REPUBLICAN | 7.3
750 | 8.6
1,817 | 10.9
195 | 13.8
716 | 11.7
272 | 9.2
3,750 | | 7: OTHER PARTY | 1.3
133 | 1.3
282 | 2.0
36 | 1.5
76 | 2.1
48 | 1.4
575 | COL TOTAL 100.0
10,257 | 100.0
21,021 | 100.0
1,789 | 100.0
5,186 | 100.0
2,334 | 100.0
40,587 | 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.
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