Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A4-Standard errors for 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           0.29    0.30    0.28     0.28     0.28
  (percent)

Number of status dropouts      92      93      88       87       91
  (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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October (various years), unpublished data.

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