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Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 2007

NCES 2009-064
September 2009


Table C-9. Standard errors for table 10: Status completion rates and number of completers among 18- through 24-year-olds: October 1972 through October 2007

Year Completion rate
(percent)
Number of completers
(thousands)
     
1972 0.32 83
1973 0.31 82
1974 0.31 83
1975 0.30 84
1976 0.30 85
     
1977 0.30 95
1978 0.30 87
1979 0.30 89
1980 0.30 87
1981 0.29 89
     
1982 0.31 93
1983 0.31 92
1984 0.31 90
1985 0.31 87
1986 0.31 85
     
1987 0.32 86
1988 0.36 94
1989 0.36 92
1990 0.34 86
1991 0.34 84
     
1992 0.33 82
1993 0.34 82
1994 0.34 80
1995 0.35 80
1996 0.35 81
     
1997 0.35 82
1998 0.36 86
1999 0.34 84
2000 0.33 83
2001 0.33 83
     
2002 0.31 80
2003 0.30 79
2004 0.30 80
2005 0.30 78
2006 0.29 78
2007 0.28 75
NOTE: Some of the standard error estimates in this table may differ from those previously published due to changes in the generalized variance parameters developed by the U.S. Census Bureau. Standard errors for population estimates in table 10 cannot be calculated.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October (1972–2007).