Standard errors for the percentage of 12th-graders who expected to attain various levels of education, by family socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and race/ethnicity: 1981–82, 1991–92, and 2003

Student Effort and Educational Progress: Standard Error Tables

Postsecondary Expectations of 12th-Graders

Table S23-1. Standard errors for the percentage of 12th-graders who expected to attain various levels of education, by family socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and race/ethnicity: 1981–82, 1991–92, and 2003–04

	High school or less			Some college			Bachelor’s degree			Graduate or professional school			Do not know
Family SES, sex, and race/ethnicity	1981– 82	1991– 92	2003– 4	1981– 82	1991– 92	2003– 4	1981– 82	1991– 92	2003– 4	1981– 82	1991– 92	2003– 4	1981– 82	1991– 92	2003– 4

Total	0.88	0.25	0.24	0.57	0.58	0.53	0.92	0.61	0.56	0.63	0.68	0.53	0.38	0.32	0.32
Family SES
Lowest quarter	1.04	0.78	0.66	1.10	1.24	1.18	0.89	1.21	1.17	0.60	1.21	0.85	0.78	0.64	0.71
Middle two quarters	0.82	0.33	0.30	0.78	0.75	0.64	1.01	0.84	0.72	0.62	0.73	0.66	0.50	0.49	0.51
Highest quarter	0.83	0.24	0.22	1.44	0.68	0.55	1.31	1.17	1.01	1.58	1.27	1.09	0.57	0.48	0.45
Sex
Male	1.05	0.39	0.41	1.07	0.75	0.68	1.21	0.83	0.76	0.98	0.94	0.71	0.50	0.51	0.42
Female	0.92	0.29	0.27	0.78	0.76	0.65	0.83	0.85	0.71	0.66	0.85	0.79	0.52	0.32	0.40
Race/ethnicity
White	0.85	0.29	0.31	0.53	0.65	0.57	0.82	0.68	0.64	0.69	0.81	0.67	0.43	0.29	0.39
Black	1.50	0.71	0.65	1.91	1.61	1.37	1.88	2.14	1.35	1.25	2.12	1.52	1.11	1.73	0.75
Hispanic	2.46	0.84	0.80	2.16	1.95	1.33	1.20	1.61	1.30	1.56	1.60	1.26	1.43	1.06	0.91
Asian/Pacific Islander	1.77	0.72	0.51	3.52	2.26	1.33	3.74	2.31	1.76	4.44	2.36	1.82	1.62	0.87	0.74
Males, by Race/ethnicity
White	1.03	0.45	0.51	1.10	0.84	0.65	1.26	0.99	0.87	1.08	1.14	0.84	0.50	0.43	0.52
Black	2.44	0.88	0.97	2.64	2.90	1.92	1.47	2.86	1.83	1.41	2.76	2.14	1.65	3.11	1.01
Hispanic	3.64	1.58	1.20	3.01	2.28	1.70	1.74	2.22	1.91	1.80	2.42	1.81	1.47	1.68	1.44
Asian/Pacific Islander	2.35	1.31	0.84	4.36	2.76	1.96	4.48	3.14	2.80	4.18	3.12	2.72	2.52	1.01	1.18
Females, by Race/ethnicity
White	0.96	0.33	0.33	0.97	0.86	0.79	0.74	0.93	0.90	0.78	0.94	1.05	0.57	0.37	0.49
Black	1.67	1.12	0.83	2.38	1.63	1.60	2.87	2.72	1.67	1.59	3.11	1.72	1.48	1.18	1.17
Hispanic	2.85	0.72	0.87	2.97	2.89	1.65	1.55	2.32	1.79	2.06	2.00	1.85	2.61	0.95	1.10
Asian/Pacific Islander	1.89	0.57	0.35	5.58	3.19	1.55	4.43	3.29	1.98	6.13	3.20	2.58	1.66	1.31	0.90

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores (HS&B-So:80/82), “First Follow-up, Student Survey, 1982, Data Analysis System”; National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, Student Survey, 1992”; and Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02/04), “First Follow-up, Student Survey, 2004”; previously unpublished tabulations (October 2005).

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