Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table 37-Percentage of NELS:88 eighth graders ever married or in a marriage-like arrangement, by sex, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

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                                Total        Male        Female
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Overall
 Total                          17.4         12.4         22.5
 High school graduates          12.8          8.5         17.1
 Other                          37.5         28.4         47.8

Low socioeconomic status
 Total                          27.5         21.0         33.5
 High school graduates          22.0         14.7         28.0
 Other                          37.7         31.0         45.2

Middle socioeconomic status
 Total                          17.4         11.9         23.0
 High school graduates          13.4          8.8         17.9
 Other                          38.1         27.0         50.9
     
High socioeconomic status
 Total                           7.5          5.7          9.5
 High school graduates           5.9          4.3          7.7
 Other                          29.6         22.3         41.0
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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National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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