Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2008

NCES 2011-012 December 2010

Table C-11. Standard errors for figure 3: Status dropout rates of 16- through 24-year-olds, by race/ethnicity and sex: October 2008

	Male	Female
Total	0.30	0.28
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	0.30	0.28
Black, non-Hispanic	0.85	0.93
Hispanic	1.12	1.08
Asian/Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	1.11	1.21
American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	5.32	3.86
Two or more races, non-Hispanic	1.51	1.80
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October 2008.