Percent of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions, by disability status and selected student characteristics: 1992-93

Table 204.

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                                |                                 |        Graduate and
                                |         Undergraduate           |     first-professional\1\
        Selected student        |_________________________________|__________________________________
        characteristics         |   All   | Disabled  |Nondisabled|   All   | Disabled  |Nondisabled
                                |students |students\2\| students  |students |students\2\|  students
________________________________|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________
               1                |    2    |     3     |     4     |    5    |     6     |     7
________________________________|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________
  Total ........................|   100.0 |       6.3 |      93.7 |   100.0 |       4.0 |       96.0
                                |=========|===========|===========|=========|===========|============
Sex ............................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  Male .........................|    44.5 |      53.0 |      44.3 |    46.4 |      51.0 |       45.6
  Female .......................|    55.5 |      47.0 |      55.8 |    53.6 |      49.0 |       54.4
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Race/ethnicity .................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  White, non-Hispanic ..........|    76.8 |      80.8 |      74.8 |    81.4 |      85.3 |       79.2
  Black, non-Hispanic ..........|    10.3 |       9.3 |      10.3 |     6.4 |       4.4 |        6.1
  Hispanic .....................|     8.0 |       6.3 |       9.1 |     4.0 |       5.1 |        4.7
  Asian American ...............|     4.0 |       1.7 |       4.9 |     7.5 |       3.8 |        9.2
  American Indian ..............|     1.0 |       1.9 |       1.0 |     0.8 |       1.3 |        0.9
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Age ............................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  15 to 23 .....................|    55.1 |      37.8 |      55.7 |    11.4 |       6.7 |       11.9
  24 to 29 .....................|    17.1 |      15.2 |      16.6 |    34.7 |      20.4 |       34.4
  30 or older ..................|    27.8 |      47.0 |      27.7 |    53.9 |      72.9 |       53.7
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Veteran status .................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  Veteran ......................|     7.5 |      17.5 |       6.8 |     6.1 |      16.4 |        5.7
  Not a veteran ................|    92.5 |      82.6 |      93.2 |    93.9 |      83.6 |       94.3
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Dependency status ..............|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  Dependent ....................|    47.9 |      33.0 |      48.8 |     8.6 |       4.9 |        8.9
  Independent ..................|    20.5 |      23.0 |      17.2 |    46.6 |      31.1 |       36.9
  Independent with dependents ..|    31.6 |      44.0 |      34.0 |    44.9 |      64.0 |       54.2
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Housing status .................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  School-owned .................|    12.8 |       7.4 |      13.2 |     5.9 |       6.1 |        6.0
  Off-campus, not with parents .|    58.8 |      69.7 |      57.2 |    84.2 |      84.1 |       84.3
  With parents .................|    25.9 |      20.1 |      27.0 |     7.5 |       5.2 |        7.4
  With relatives ...............|     2.2 |       2.7 |       2.4 |     2.3 |       4.3 |        2.3
  Other ........................|     0.2 |       0.2 |       0.2 |     0.1 |       0.3 |        0.1
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Attendance status ..............|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  Full-time ....................|    32.8 |      25.9 |      32.6 |    25.4 |      20.0 |       26.1
  Part-time ....................|    67.2 |      74.1 |      67.5 |    74.6 |      80.0 |       73.9
                                |         |           |           |         |           |
Field of study .................|   100.0 |     100.0 |     100.0 |   100.0 |     100.0 |      100.0
  Business .....................|    22.8 |      21.9 |      22.8 |    16.0 |      11.5 |       15.7
  Computer science .............|     4.6 |       6.2 |       4.7 |     3.0 |       2.6 |        3.0
  Education ....................|    10.3 |       9.4 |      11.0 |    25.7 |      33.3 |       26.1
  Engineering ..................|     6.9 |       6.9 |       6.8 |     6.5 |       6.0 |        6.5
  Health .......................|    13.5 |      12.4 |      14.0 |    11.5 |       7.4 |       11.6
  Humanities ...................|    11.3 |      11.9 |      10.6 |     8.5 |       8.8 |        8.2
  Life sciences ................|     5.4 |       4.8 |       5.7 |     5.1 |       6.6 |        5.5
  Mathematics ..................|     0.9 |       0.6 |       1.0 |     1.4 |       2.4 |        1.4
  Physical sciences ............|     1.1 |       1.2 |       1.2 |     2.6 |       2.6 |        2.7
  Social sciences ..............|     8.0 |       7.2 |       7.8 |     9.1 |       9.2 |        9.0
  Vocational ...................|     5.3 |       6.4 |       5.1 |     0.8 |       0.8 |        0.8
  Other technical/professional .|    10.0 |      11.1 |       9.3 |     9.8 |       8.9 |        9.5
________________________________|_________|___________|___________|_________|___________|____________

\1\Includes chiropractic medicine, medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine.
\2\Disabled students are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual handicap, hard of hearing, deafness, a speech disability, an orthopedic handicap, or a health impairment.

NOTE.--Because of rounding and survey item nonresponse, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "The 1992-93 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study." (This table was prepared July 1995.)

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