Special Analysis 2008

Part A. Students Who Enroll in Community Colleges Immediately After High School

Table S-SA-23. Standard errors for the percentage distribution of the spring 1992 12th-grade cohort, by immediate and delayed postsecondary enrollment status, control and type of institution, and educational plans and expectations: 1992 and 1994

		Immediate enrollment in a postsecondary institution
			2-year institution		4-year institution			Delayed enrollment
Plans and expectations	No post- secondary education through 1994	Total	All	Public	All	Public	Private	Total	In 2-year institution in 1994	In 4-year institution in 1994

Total	0.70	0.78	0.61	0.61	0.82	0.62	0.60	0.54	0.41	0.40
Post-high school educational plans
Plan to get postsecondary education	0.59	0.78	0.75	0.75	0.95	0.81	0.75	0.64	0.47	0.51
Don’t plan to continue	1.55	1.16	0.91	0.77	0.63	0.44	0.44	1.29	0.97	0.51
Don’t know or unspecified plans	2.75	2.13	1.68	1.64	1.52	1.17	1.01	2.47	2.31	0.96
Highest educational attainment expected when in 12th-grade (1992)
Don’t know	2.80	2.87	2.23	1.78	1.81	1.43	1.19	2.30	1.99	0.97
High school diploma or less	1.80	1.04	0.95	0.92	0.40	0.39	†	1.59	1.47	0.22
Attend or complete 2-year college	1.67	1.37	1.13	1.04	0.66	0.56	0.37	1.43	1.10	0.43
Attend or complete 4-year college	0.80	1.06	0.91	0.92	1.06	0.91	0.70	0.86	0.65	0.64
Obtain graduate degree	0.83	1.25	1.11	1.10	1.38	1.16	1.28	1.01	0.62	0.81
Highest educational attainment expected 2 years later (1994)
Don’t know	4.20	3.88	2.90	2.80	2.45	2.08	1.39	3.01	2.13	1.48
Attend or complete 2-year college	1.48	1.24	1.14	1.10	0.50	0.36	0.36	1.29	0.98	0.87
Attend or complete 4-year college	0.98	1.18	1.17	1.17	1.00	0.82	0.58	0.92	0.73	0.62
Obtain graduate degree	0.49	0.95	0.84	0.80	1.17	1.14	1.15	0.88	0.64	0.71

† Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/92), “Second Follow-up, 1992.”

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