Data connection

New England Journal of Higher Education, The, Fall 2001

* Estimated percentage of U.S. ninth graders who will go on to graduate from high school: 68%

* Estimated percentage of high school graduates who will enroll in college the fall after graduation: 57%

* Percentage of Americans who express a high degree of confidence in public colleges and universities: 62%

* In public elementary and secondary education: 51%

* Percentage of students in grades 7-12 who say they have access to higher quality computers at home than at school: 61%

* Ratio of for-profit computer training schools to traditional colleges and universities among the

15 largest computer training providers in Massachusetts: 2-to-1

* Change in total number of New England jobs posted on monster.com from Jan. 1, 2001, to June 30, 2001: -4%

* Change in number of New England high-tech jobs posted on monster.com during the same period: -52%

* Change in number of New England Internet/e-commerce jobs posted: -74%

* Change in number of New England biotech jobs posted: 21%

* Approximate number of people employed by Massachusetts manufacturers of medical devices: 21,000

* Rank of Massachusetts among all states in production of medical devices: 2

* Estimated increase in number of drug-related emergency room visits nationally between 1999 and 2000: 0%

* Estimated increase in Boston: 28%

* Respective U.S. ranks of Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts in income inequality: 3,6,9

* Estimated value of formal volunteer work through nonprofit organizations in 1998: $225,900,000,000

* Average number of hours volunteered per week by college graduates in 1998: 3

* Average a decade earlier: 6

* Estimated number of rounds of golf played in Maine in 1999: 1,700,000

* Estimated economic impact of golf in Maine, including multiplier effects: $205,400,000

* Approximate load in pounds that bridge decks on Interstate 95 are designed to withstand: 20,000

* Approximate load in pounds that bridge decks being developed by the

University of Maine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center can withstand: 60,000

* Percentage change in population of Aroostook County, Maine, from 1990 to 2000: -15%

* Percentage change in population of Barnstable County, Massachusetts, from 1990 to 2000: 19%

* Percentage of U.S. residents who are ages 20 to 34: 21%

* Percentage of Barnstable County residents who are: 13%

* Women as a percentage of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities: 39%

* Minorities as a percentage of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities: 15%

* Number of reported efforts by parents and others to remove books from U.S. schools and libraries due to racist, anti-ethnic or sexist content, 1990-2000: 397

* Number due to nudity or sexual content: 2,663

Sources: 1,2 Postsecondary Education Opportunity; 3,4 Independent Sector; 5 Education Week; 6 NEBHE analysis of Boston Business Journal data: 7,8,9,10 Mass High Tech, 11,12 University of Massachusetts Boston (Minnesota ranks first); 13,14 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 15 Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth; 16,17,18 Independent Sector; 19,20 Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station; 21,22 University of Maine Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center; 23,24,25,26 University of Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis; 27;28 American Council on Education analysis of U.S. Department of Education data; 29,30 American Library Association