Standard errors for the percentage of youth ages 16–19 who had ever been retained in a grade in their school career, by current enrollment status and selected characteristics: 1995, 1999, and 2004

Student Effort and Educational Progress: Standard Error Tables

Grade Retention

Table S25-1. Standard errors for the percentage of youth ages 16–19 who had ever been retained in a grade in their school career, by current enrollment status and selected characteristics: 1995, 1999, and 2004

	1995				1999				2004
Characteristic	Total	Enrolled in high school	Com- pleted high school	Dropped out of school	Total	Enrolled in high school	Com- pleted high school	Dropped out of school	Total	Enrolled in high school	Com- pleted high school	Dropped out of school

Total	1.18	1.27	0.77	1.52	1.14	1.25	1.47	1.47	1.09	1.19	0.71	1.52
Grade level retained
K–5	1.34	1.48	0.89	1.76	1.28	1.44	0.86	1.57	1.23	1.37	0.83	1.61
6–12	1.30	1.95	1.20	2.12	1.22	1.32	0.75	1.90	1.15	1.23	0.65	1.93
Race/ethnicity
White	1.42	1.53	0.96	1.94	1.42	1.54	1.01	2.01	1.39	1.52	0.86	2.24
Black	3.16	3.31	2.21	3.77	3.07	3.29	2.09	3.81	2.94	3.12	2.12	3.70
Hispanic	3.79	4.23	2.14	4.04	3.38	3.89	1.96	3.27	3.09	3.41	2.17	3.27
Sex
Male	1.61	1.71	1.14	1.95	1.57	1.72	1.02	1.97	1.50	1.62	1.01	1.94
Female	1.72	1.89	1.00	2.45	1.66	1.79	1.24	2.18	1.58	1.75	1.03	2.46
Family income
Lowest quarter	2.21	2.29	1.54	2.48	2.56	2.76	1.68	2.92	2.58	2.92	1.29	3.10
Middle two quarters	1.79	2.01	1.02	2.29	1.85	2.04	1.31	2.16	1.67	1.80	1.14	2.28
Highest quarter	2.59	2.86	2.11	3.60	2.15	2.31	1.69	3.58	2.26	2.53	1.60	3.69
Family type
Two-parent household	1.44	1.56	0.94	1.96	1.45	1.57	1.03	1.97	1.40	1.53	0.91	2.10
None or one-parent household	2.03	2.22	1.32	2.42	1.86	2.09	1.20	2.20	1.74	1.93	1.14	2.20
Region
Northeast	2.74	3.02	1.88	3.68	2.69	2.92	2.06	3.45	2.51	2.76	1.83	3.47
South	1.91	2.04	1.14	2.33	1.89	2.06	1.31	2.26	1.79	1.93	1.14	2.40
Midwest	2.43	2.68	1.54	3.22	2.35	2.59	1.49	3.40	2.31	2.42	1.61	3.69
West	2.63	2.80	2.03	3.25	2.43	2.66	1.56	3.24	2.34	2.74	1.30	2.74
Primary language spoken in the home
English	1.27	1.37	0.84	1.68	1.26	1.36	0.89	1.72	1.20	1.31	0.76	1.82
Language other than English	3.09	3.46	1.93	3.38	2.72	3.18	1.36	2.77	2.58	2.92	1.94	2.36

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October Supplement, 1995, 1999, and 2004, previously unpublished tabulation (December 2005).

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