Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 12-HS&B and NELS:88 10th- to 12th-grade cohort dropout rates, by demographic characteristics: August 1982 and 1992

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                                        Cohort dropout rate
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                                        HS&B/1       NELS:88
Status in 10th grade                  1980-82        1990-92
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      Total                              9.9           5.6
	
Sex
         Male                           11.0           5.2
         Female                          9.0           6.0

Race ethnicity/2
         Asian/Pacific Islander          2.2           4.6
         Hispanic                       16.8          10.9
         Black, non-Hispanic            11.3           7.6
         White, non-Hispanic             8.8           4.3
         Native American                25.1          18.2

Family below poverty level                               
         Yes                            13.0          10.9
         No                              6.1           3.6

Family composition                                       
         Intact family                   5.5           4.2
         Two adults/step-parents        12.9           7.9
         Single parent                  11.0           7.4
         Other                          19.8          10.4

Own child in home
         Yes
           Male                         19.4           6.8
           Female                       33.0          18.3

         No                         
           Male                          8.3           5.1
           Female                        7.0           5.5
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1/Rates for HS&B are revised from previously published data.

2/Not shown separately are those included in the total whose race ethnicity is unknown.

NOTE: See the technical appendix for the definitions of poverty and family composition used in these tables.

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Study, Sophomore cohort, First Followup Survey, 1982, unpublished data. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 First and Second Followup Surveys, 1990 and 1992, unpublished data.

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