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Postsecondary Expectations of 12th-Graders
Table S23.  Standard errors for the percentage of 12th-graders who expected to attain a bachelor’s degree or attend graduate/professional school, by family socioeconomic status (SES): 1981–82, 1991–92, and 2003–04

Family SES 1981–82 1991–92 2003–04

Bachelor’s degree      
  Low SES 0.89 1.21 1.17
  Middle SES 1.01 0.84 0.72
  High SES 1.31 1.17 1.01
Graduate or professional school      
  Low SES 0.60 1.21 0.85
  Middle SES 0.62 0.73 0.66
  High SES 1.58 1.27 1.09

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1992”; and Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:02/04), “First Follow-up, Student Survey, 2004”; previously unpublished tabulations (October 2005).

 
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