Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 4-Rate and number of status dropouts, ages 16-24: October 1990 through October 1994

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				             October
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                              1990    1991     1992/1  1993/1  1994/1,2
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Status dropout rate           12.1    12.5      11.0    11.0     11.5
 (percent)

Number of status dropouts    3,797   3,881      3,410   3,396   3,727
 (in thousands)

Population                  31,443   31,171    30,944  30,845  32,560
 (in thousands)

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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.

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