Owners and Managers
» Owners and Managers, Volume 8, Issue 8, 2008
11. What is your highest level of formal education?
| Response | Owner/ Managed |
Managed |
All Employing Small Businesses |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | < H.S. | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | H.S. diploma/GED | 17 | 23 | 18 |
| 3 | Some college or associate’s degree | 23 | 24 | 23 |
| 4 | Vocational or technical school degree | 4 | 6 | 4 |
| 5 | College diploma | 35 | 32 | 34 |
| 6 | Advanced or professional degree | 19 | 12 | 18 |
| 7 | DK/Refuse | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Total (%) | 101 | 100 | 100 | |
| N | 3600 | 660 | 4511 | |
Notes: Nineteen (19) percent of owner/managed, employing small businesses, 12 percent of managed, employing small businesses, and 19 percent of all employing small businesses are managed by an individual with an advanced or professional degree (Q#11).
