Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 33-Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with at least one child, by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

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                               Total        Male        Female
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Overall
 Total                         15.9         9.9          21.9
 High school graduates          9.2         5.2          13.1
 Other                         45.1        29.2          63.0

Low socioeconomic status
 Total                         29.3        20.4          37.5
 High school graduates         18.3        10.8          24.5
 Other                         49.8        35.8          65.4

Middle socioeconomic status
 Total                         14.8         9.3          20.5
 High school graduates          9.4         5.4          13.3
 Other                         43.0        27.6          60.6
    
High socioeconomic status
 Total                          4.2         1.6           7.1
 High school graduates          2.8         1.3           4.6
 Other                         23.5         5.3          52.1
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal

Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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