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Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994


Table A12-Standard errors for 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                           0.42               0.36

Sex
 Male                             0.64               0.45
 Female                           0.54               0.56

Race-ethnicity/2
 Asian, Pacific Islander          0.73               2.14
 Hispanic                         1.65               1.44
 Black, non-Hispanic              1.15               1.22
 White, non-Hispanic              0.46               0.33
 Native American                  5.33               8.09

Family below poverty level
 Yes                              0.86               1.16
 No                               0.28               0.35
   
Family composition
 Intact family                    0.24               0.42
 Two adults/step-parents          1.25               1.06
 Single parent                    0.78               0.96
 Other                            1.86               2.22

Own child in home
 Yes                                                  
  Male                            6.50               2.35
  Female                          7.42               3.91

 No                                                   
  Male                            0.38               0.46
  Female                          0.36               0.56
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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National Center for Education Statistics, High School and Beyond Study, Sophomore cohort, First Followup Survey, 1982, unpublished data.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Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 First and Second Followup Surveys, 1990 and 1992, unpublished data.


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