United States yearbook - 1982 (1)

XX
Recent Trends
Education and Law Enforcement
Public School Enrollment
and Expenditures1
Percent change
Educational Attainment
(Persons 25 yrs. old and over)
.Percent
College Enrollment by Sex
Millions
7 ...
1970 72 74 76 78 '80 '82
Criminal Justice Employment
and Expenditures
Annual percent change
2 6 --------------------------------------------- -
Crime Rate
Rate per 100,000 persons
Victimization Rates of Crimes
Against Persons
Rate par 1,000 persons
45------------------------------------------
r -~; Black
40 •
Total
25 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1973 74 76 '78 '80 '82
Subject
Unit
I960 1970 1975 1980 1981
measure 1960
-70
Average annual
percent change
1970
-75
1975
-81
School enrollment (Oct.)............................ Millions 46.3 60.4 61.0 57.3 56.9 2.7 .2 -1 .1
Elem. and secondary, public.................. Millions 36.7 46.2 44.5 (NA) 39.6 2.3 - .7 -1.8
Elem. and secondary, private Millions 5.9 6.7 5.0 (NA) 4.6 -.3 -2.4 -1 .4
School expenditures3................................. $Bil. 26.8 70.1 121.6 181,3 (NA) 10.1 11.7 48.3
Elem. and secondary, public.................. $Bil. 13.7 41.0 64.8 97.5 (NA) 11.6 9.6 "8.5
College enrollment (O ct.)......................... Millions 3.6 7.4 9.7 10.2 10.4 7.6 5.5 1.2
Percent female...................................... Percent 35.9 40.6 44.9 50.6 50.2 (NS) (NS) (NS)
Educational attainment:5
High school, 4 yrs. or more.................. Percent 41.1 55.2 62.5 68.6 69.7 (NS) (NS) (NS)
College, 4 yrs. or more.......................... Percent 7.7 11.0 13.9 17.0 17.1 (NS) (NS) (NS)
Crimes, number........................................ 1,000 3,384 8,098 11,257 13,295 13,290 9.1 6.8 2.8
Crime rate per 100,000 persons.................. Rate 1,887 3,988 5,282 5,900 5,800 7.8 5.8 1.6
Violent (against persons)....................... Rate 161 364 482 581 577 8.6 S.8 3.0
Property.............................................. Rate 1.726 3,621 4,800 5,319 5,223 7.7 6.6 1.4
Criminal justice employment2.................... (NA) 776 1,051 5 1,178 (NA) (NA) 6.3 7?.fl
Criminal justice expenditures.................... $MII. 3,349 8,571 17,249 *25,871 (NA) 9.9 16.0 710.7
NA Not available. NS Not significant. 1Elementary and ilecondary. 7Full-time equivalent. 9 For school year ending in
June the following year. 4 Change, 1975*80. 3Persons 25 years old and over. ‘ 1979 data. ’ Change, 1975-79.