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Number of
Status status Percent Percent
dropout dropouts of all of
Characteristics rate (in thousands) dropouts population
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Total 1.64 74
Speaks only English 3.19 29
Ever enrolled in U.S. 3.07 27 6.72 1.58
Never enrolled in U.S. 12.61 5 6.72 1.58
Dropout
Completed
Speaks Spanish 1.88 67
Ever enrolled in U.S. 1.83 51 3.53 1.66
Never enrolled in U.S. 3.68 29 3.53 1.66
Dropout
Completed
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-/ Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.