Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 34-Percentage of 1988 eighth graders with children born prior to scheduled graduation (8/92), by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

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                                   Total        Male        Female
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Overall
    Total                          49.0         36.1         54.8
    High school graduates          35.2         25.2         38.8
    Other                          61.1         43.7         70.2

Low socioeconomic status
    Total                          49.6         34.4         57.0
    High school graduates          34.0         17.4         40.0
    Other                          60.1         42.7         70.6

Middle socioeconomic status
    Total                          48.4         40.1         52.1
    High school graduates          36.4         32.5         37.8
    Other                          61.6         46.6         69.5
    
High socioeconomic status
    Total                          48.6           -          53.6
    High school graduates          36.1           -          39.7
    Other                          70.2           -            -
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-Insufficient sample size to compute reliable estimate.

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Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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