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This is a great point. Can anyone find a link to the raw dataset? Happy to whip up a better visualization.

• gen220 6y ago
  Looks like the data source is here: https://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles-0319.htm https://www.bls.gov/tus/datafiles-0319.htm It's not a super easy to use format, but it should be fun to extract some more useful data out of it. For what it's worth, the sample size here is very small. It is hard to believe that it's representative of the distribution. This link [1] suggests the data come from 210k interviews conducted over 16 years (13ish thousand per year). And the data is longitudinal (so over those 16 years, many of the interviewees are the same person). Even if every interviewee was unique, this would represent <0.0001 (or less than .01 percent) of the ~240m americans in 2003 who were over the age of 20. [1]: https://www.bls.gov/tus/atussummary.pdf https://www.bls.gov/tus/atussummary.pdf