Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A37-Standard errors for 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                         0.56       0.72        0.79
 High school graduates         0.45       0.48        0.72
 Other                         1.84       2.61        2.59

Low socioeconomic status
 Total                         1.30       2.04        1.58
 High school graduates         1.26       1.52        1.82
 Other                         2.66       4.18        3.18

Middle socioeconomic status
 Total                         0.66       0.73        1.08
 High school graduates         0.59       0.60        0.99
 Other                         2.51       3.18        4.08

High socioeconomic status
 Total                         0.84       1.24        1.05
 High school graduates         0.60       0.73        0.92
 Other                         8.05      11.74       11.47
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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National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

[Appendix A: Table 36]

[Appendix A: Table 38]