1 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Digest of Annual Reports, 1960-63, Review of Activities in Federally Aided Programs, Vocational and Technical Education, 1964. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office.

a Data furnished by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education, Bureau of Adult, Vocational, and Library Programs, U.S. Office of Education, Sept. 1, 1967. Includes enrollment of 730,904-Office Occupations. (Hereinafter cited as data furnished by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education.)

Data furnished by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education. Includes enrollment of 1,237,086-Office Occupations.

♦ Projected.

Table 2 shows a comparison of the fiscal year 1966 enrollment in Vocational education per 1,000 population with that of 1961. Four of the States had a decrease in enrollment per 1,000 population, whereas the remaining 46 States plus the District of Columbia increased the enrollment per 1,000 population. The total national increase in enrollment during the period fiscal years 1965 and 1966 was 10.2 per 1,000 population. Figure 1 shows the data for fiscal year 1966 in the form of a map of the United States. The States vary considerably in the extent to which vocational education reaches their population.

TABLE 2.-TOTAL POPULATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ENROLLMENT, AND ENROLLMENT PER 1,000 POPULATION: UNITED STATES, FISCAL YEARS 1966 AND 1961 COMPARED

TABLE 2.-TOTAL POPULATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ENROLLMENT, AND ENROLLMENT PER 1,000 POPULATION UNITED STATES, FISCAL YEARS 1966 AND 1961 COMPARED-Continued

1U.S. Department of Commerce. "Population Estimates," series P-25, No. 350, Oct. 5, 1966, table 1.

Data furnished by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education.

"Education for a Changing World of Work," op cit., pp. 71-72.

• Includes enrollment for Guam, Puerto Rico, and Virgin islands.

REGIONAL COMPARISON

The nine regions established by the U.S. Office of Education in the process of decentralizing some of its activities are as follows:

Region I: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.

Region II: Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. Region III: District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands. Region IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee.

Region V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin.

Region VI: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

Region VII: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.

Region VIII: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming.

Region IX: Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa.

In analyzing the relationship between total vocational education enrollments and the population within the region in table 3, it was found that the mean enrollment per 1,000 population was 31.3. The range varied from 21.3 in region II to 41.6 in region IV. Comparisons between the nine regions are shown in figure 2.

TABLE 3.-RELATIONSHIP OF POPULATION WITHIN U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION REGION AND TOTAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ENROLLMENT, FISCAL YEAR 1966

FIGURE 2.-Relationship of population within USOE region and total vocational education enrollment