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| Characteristic |
Status dropout rate (percent) |
Number of status dropouts (thousands) |
Population (thousands) |
Percent of all dropouts |
Percent of population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 0.20 | 76.8 | — | † | † |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 0.30 | 56.0 | — | 1.33 | 0.38 |
| Female | 0.28 | 52.6 | — | 1.33 | 0.38 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 0.21 | 47.3 | — | 1.28 | 0.37 |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 0.63 | 34.1 | — | 1.08 | 0.28 |
| Hispanic | 0.78 | 52.5 | — | 1.48 | 0.33 |
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Asian/Pacific Islander,
non-Hispanic |
0.82 | 12.4 | — | 0.42 | 0.16 |
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American Indian/Alaska Native,
non-Hispanic |
3.20 | 9.4 | — | 0.34 | 0.07 |
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Two or more races, non-Hispanic |
1.17 | 8.3 | — | 0.28 | 0.11 |
| Age | |||||
| 16 | 0.33 | 13.9 | — | 0.46 | 0.24 |
| 17 | 0.48 | 20.9 | — | 0.69 | 0.24 |
| 18 | 0.59 | 25.7 | — | 0.84 | 0.24 |
| 19 | 0.68 | 28.2 | — | 0.92 | 0.24 |
| 20–24 | 0.30 | 61.3 | — | 1.27 | 0.38 |
| Recency of immigration | |||||
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Born outside the 50 states and District of Columbia |
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| Hispanic | 1.61 | 37.6 | — | 1.31 | 0.21 |
| Non-Hispanic | 0.76 | 14.5 | — | 0.49 | 0.17 |
| First generation | |||||
| Hispanic | 1.03 | 25.0 | — | 0.84 | 0.21 |
| Non-Hispanic | 0.53 | 12.2 | — | 0.41 | 0.18 |
| Second generation or higher | |||||
| Hispanic | 1.16 | 22.8 | — | 0.77 | 0.19 |
| Non-Hispanic | 0.21 | 56.6 | — | 1.33 | 0.34 |
| Region | |||||
| Northeast | 0.42 | 28.3 | — | 0.91 | 0.30 |
| Midwest | 0.43 | 36.3 | — | 1.12 | 0.32 |
| South | 0.37 | 49.8 | — | 1.35 | 0.37 |
| West | 0.45 | 40.0 | — | 1.19 | 0.32 |
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— Not available.
† Not applicable. The corresponding statistic refers to the total population, which is, by definition, 100 percent of the distribution. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 2008. |
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