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The Hispanic Population in the United States
Family Household Size And Marital Status & Educational Attainment
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"The nation's Hispanic population has grown so rapidly that the 2000 Census shows their numbers are roughly equal to that of African Americans, a demographic shift that has broad implications for politics and culture at the beginning of the millennium."
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Family Household Size And Marital Status
Hispanics live in family households that are larger than those of non-Hispanic Whites. In 2000, 30.6 percent of family households in which a Hispanic person was the householder consisted of five or more people. (7) In contrast, only 11.8 percent of non-Hispanic White family households were this large. Among Hispanic family households, Mexican households were most likely to have five or more people (35.5 percent), as shown in Figure 6. Family households with only two people represented 21.7 percent of Hispanic family households compared with 46.0 percent of non-Hispanic White family households. Among Hispanic households, Cuban family households were most likely to have only two people (41.3 percent). For the population aged 15 years and older, Hispanics were more likely to have never been married than non-Hispanic Whites (33.2 percent compared with 24.5 percent). Among Latinos, Cubans were least likely to have never been married (20.4 percent). (8)
Educational Attainment
More than two in five Hispanics have not graduated from high school. The Hispanic population age 25 and older was less likely to have at least graduated from high school than non-Hispanic Whites (57.0 percent and 88.4 percent, respectively). In addition, more than one-quarter of Hispanics had less than a ninth-grade education (27.3 percent) compared with only 4.2 percent of non-Hispanic Whites. The proportion with a bachelor 's degree or more was much lower for Hispanics (10.6 percent) than for non-Hispanic Whites (28.1 percent, see Figure 7).
Educational attainment varies among Latinos. Among Hispanics, Cubans and other Hispanics were most likely to have graduated from high school (73.0 percent and 71.6 percent, respectively) (9) compared with Mexicans (51.0 percent), as shown in Figure 8.
Similarly, the proportion who had attained bachelor 's degree ranged from 23.0 percent for Cubans to 6.9 percent for Mexicans.
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