Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A36-Standard errors for Table 36: Percentage of 1988 eighth graders ever married or in a marriage-like arrangement, by race-ethnicity, by graduation status and socioeconomic status: 1994

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                                    Asian/                Black,     White,     
                                   Pacific                 non-       non-      Native
                            Total  Islander   Hispanic   Hispanic   Hispanic   American
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Overall
 Total                      0.56     1.75       1.75       1.43        0.66      4.27
 High school graduates      0.45     1.43       1.70       1.28        0.50      7.98
 Other                      1.84    10.63       3.73       3.80        2.33      6.59

Low socioeconomic status
 Total                      1.30     2.61       2.39       2.03        1.98      3.54
 High school graduates      1.26     2.88       2.30       2.64        1.68      9.03
 Other                      2.66      -         4.41       3.05        3.90      5.70

Middle socioeconomic status  
 Total                      0.66     2.79       2.55       1.36        0.75      5.57
 High school graduates      0.59     2.13       2.76       1.48        0.65      5.02
 Other                      2.51      -         7.75       3.83        3.03       -

High socioeconomic status
 Total                      0.84     1.93        404       7.49        0.71       -
 High school graduates      0.60     1.96       4.14       1.58        0.61       -
 Other                      8.05      -          -         6.66         -         -
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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National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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