Where could I find some geographical statistics about Ph.D.s?

Where could I find statistical information about the number of Ph.D. holders from a specific geographical area? Hello MeFites, Where could I find any information about how many people fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Virginia hold PhDs in the sciences? Specifically, I'm wondering: 1. What percentage of the population native to SW Va. holds a Ph.D.? - Any Ph.D - A sciences Ph.D. - Biological/biomedical sciences Ph.D. - Or any postbaccalaureate sciences degree? 2. What percentage of the current population of SW Va holds a Ph.D. (or same caveats as above)? A breakdown of men/women would also be useful. 3. What percentage of SW Va. women have a Ph.D. in the biomedical/biological sciences (or Ph.D. at all)? Thanks, Hive!
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Muck about with the http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ACSSAFFPeople?_submenuId=people_5&_sse=on. You can do a county-by-county search of the region you're interested in. As far as I can tell they don't break it down by subject matter, but you'll at least get a count of graduate degrees. Sort of. You're talking about really small numbers of people. Something like http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/STTable?_bm=y&-context=st&-qr_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_S1501&-ds_name=ACS_2008_3YR_G00_&-tree_id=3308&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=05000US51167&-format=&-_lang=en with a margin of error of +/1 1.3%. So the margin of error, as I understand it, is potentially something like 50% of the number of people with said degrees. So they're saying about 550 people plus or minus 250. Tl;dr: there may not be a good source of information for this, but the number is going to be really, really small.

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You might be able to get most of (2) from the Census Bureau, but not broken down by field. Maybe NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates.

ROU_Xenophobe

What percentage of the population native to SW Va. holds a Ph.D.? Do you mean to include people who grew up there but have moved away? I think this would be nearly impossible. I agree with valkyryn; census data is your best bet.

desjardins

Here's the http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvydoctorates/surveys/srvydoctorates_2008.pdf. Question C5 asks for the state of birth, and question C9 asks for the state of the last high school attended. Here's a http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf10309/content.cfm?pub_id=3996&id=8. I can't see any that use the data from those questions but I'm not looking too hard. But the SED isn't going to give you data below the state level, because they don't collect it.

madcaptenor

Thanks for the great answers, all.

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