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Ever retained Never retained
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Status Percent Percent Status Percent Percent
dropout of all of dropout of all of
Characteristics rate dropouts population rate dropouts population
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Total 1.04 0.29
Sex
Male 1.26 2.45 1.17 0.42 1.49 0.47
Female 1.81 2.45 1.17 0.39 1.49 0.47
Race-ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic 1.31 2.41 1.18 0.28 1.48 0.44
Black, non-Hispanic 2.65 2.32 1.14 0.87 1.16 0.38
Hispanic 3.16 2.77 1.32 1.38 2.22 0.49
Region
Northeast 2.02 1.53 0.80 0.47 0.83 0.32
Midwest 2.35 1.97 0.95 0.48 1.10 0.40
South 1.62 2.52 1.23 0.53 1.49 0.46
West 2.41 1.76 0.95 0.71 1.43 0.41
Income*
Low 2.20 2.45 1.10 0.86 1.46 0.38
Middle 1.35 2.47 1.21 0.38 1.48 0.47
High 1.65 1.08 0.88 0.30 0.68 0.40
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-/ Not applicable.
*/ Low income is defined as the bottom 20 percent of all family incomes for 1994; middle income is between 20 and 80 percent of all family incomes; and high income is the top 20 percent of all family incomes.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.
[Appendix A: Table 27]
