Table A25.  Standard errors for Table 25: Rate, number, and distribution of status dropouts, ages 1624, by repetition of grade(s): October 1995

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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              0.29             93                          
Grade repetition
 Ever retained          1.04             45            1.13          0.30
 Never retained         0.29             80            1.13          0.30
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.

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