1 Here again, as in other regional cultures, mean years of schooling are derived from total enrollment data by the following equation: Ys = Yp (E/P) where Ys is mean years of schooling, Yp is the range in ages of enrolled children. E is the number enrolled, and P is the population of school age. The result may be thought of as a total education rate, comparable in its epistemic status to a total fertility rate. Data are drawn from A. R. Newsome, “Twelve North Carolina Counties in 1810,” NCHR 6 (1929), 17-99; this subject will be discussed in more detail in volume II.
2SAUS (1984), 145.