Table C2: Standard errors for Table C1: Event dropout and retention rates and number of
dropouts ages 15-24 in grades 10-12: October 1990 through October 1995

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                         Event dropout   School retention    Number
Year ending                 rate             rate          of dropouts
                          (percent)        (percent)       (in thousands)
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1990                        0.33              0.33             29
1991                        0.34              0.34             29
1992\1\                     0.35              0.35             30
1993\1\                     0.36              0.36             30
1994\1\,\2\                 0.37              0.37             35
1995\1\,\2\                 0.38              0.38             36
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1/  Numbers for these years reflect new wording of the educational attainment
item in the CPS.
2/  Numbers in this year may reflect changes in CPS due to newly instituted
computer assisted interviewing and/or due to the change in the population
controls used this year to the 1990 Census-based estimates, with adjustment.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population
Survey, October (various years), unpublished data.

[Appendix C: Table 1]

[Appendix C: Table 3]