Table 23.1. Percentage of undergraduate fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1976-2004

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Table 23.1.

Percentage of undergraduate fall enrollment in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and sex: Selected years, 1976-2004

Year	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native
Percent male
1976	52.0	52.4	45.7	54.3	53.8	49.9
1980	47.7	47.8	42.0	48.8	51.7	44.6
1990	45.0	45.1	39.0	45.1	50.8	41.8
2000	43.9	44.6	37.3	43.1	47.5	40.7
2001	43.8	44.6	36.9	42.8	47.2	40.4
2002	43.4	44.4	36.4	42.3	47.0	39.8
2003	43.0	44.1	35.9	41.6	46.4	39.0
2004	42.9	44.1	35.7	41.4	46.2	39.1

Percent female
1976	48.0	47.6	54.3	45.7	46.2	50.1
1980	52.3	52.2	58.0	51.2	48.3	55.4
1990	55.0	54.9	61.0	54.9	49.2	58.2
2000	56.1	55.4	62.7	56.9	52.5	59.3
2001	56.2	55.4	63.1	57.2	52.8	59.6
2002	56.6	55.6	63.6	57.7	53.0	60.2
2003	57.0	55.9	64.1	58.4	53.6	61.0
2004	57.1	55.9	64.3	58.6	53.8	60.9

Difference (male - female)
1976	4.0	4.7	-8.7	8.6	7.6	-0.1
1980	-4.5	-4.4	-15.9	-2.4	3.4	-10.8
1990	-10.0	-9.7	-21.9	-9.8	1.7	-16.4
2000	-12.2	-10.7	-25.5	-13.8	-4.9	-18.5
2001	-12.4	-10.8	-26.2	-14.4	-5.6	-19.2
2002	-13.1	-11.2	-27.2	-15.3	-6.1	-20.5
2003	-14.0	-11.8	-28.1	-16.9	-7.3	-22.1
2004	-14.2	-11.8	-28.6	-17.1	-7.5	-21.8
NOTE: Data from 1976 to 1990 are for institutions of higher education that were accredited by an agency or association that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, or recognized directly by the Secretary of Education. Later data are for degree-granting institutions. The new degree-granting classification is very similar to the earlier higher education classification, except that it includes some additional institutions, primarily 2-year colleges, and excludes a few higher education institutions that did not award associate or higher degrees. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2005 (NCES 2006-030), table 205, data from the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Fall Enrollment in Colleges and Universities" surveys, 1976 and 1980, and 1990 through 2004 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Fall Enrollment" survey, 1990, and Spring 2001 through Spring 2005.