New York State and Western New York education completion (2017–2021)
Location
Not completing high school
Completing high school only
Completing some college
Completing college
NYS
12.6%
25.2%
24.1%
38.1%
Erie
7.9%
26.2%
30.0%
35.9%
Monroe
8.9%
23.1%
28.1%
40.0%
Source: Data retrieved from https://ers.usda.gov/data-products, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. NYS: New York State
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AJM: Investigation, Data curation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. TS: Formal analysis, Validation, Writing—review & editing. DP: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources. AV: Writing—review & editing, Validation. MD: Formal analysis, Writing—review & editing. KA: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—review & editing, Project administration, Resources, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
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Margaret DeAngelis who is the Associate Editor of Exploration of Medicine had no involvement in the decision-making or the review process of this manuscript. The other authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
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