Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A39-Data for Figure 1: Event dropout rates for grades 10-12, ages 15-24, by race-ethnicity: October 1972 through October 1994

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                                       Race ethnicity/1
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                             White,         Black,
Year           Total      non-Hispanic   non-Hispanic   Hispanic
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                               (percent)

1972            6.1            5.3            9.5         11.2
1973            6.3            5.5            9.9         10.0
1974            6.7            5.8           11.6          9.9
1975            5.8            5.0            8.7         10.9
1976            5.9            5.6            7.4          7.3
1977            6.5            6.1            8.6          7.8
1978            6.7            5.8           10.2         12.3
1979            6.7            6.0            9.9          9.8
1980            6.1            5.2            8.2         11.7
1981            5.9            4.8            9.7         10.7
1982            5.5            4.7            7.8          9.2
1983            5.2            4.4            7.0         10.1
1984            5.1            4.4            5.7         11.1
1985            5.2            4.3            7.8          9.8
1986            4.7            3.7            5.4         11.9
1987/2          4.1            3.5            6.4          5.4
1988/2          4.8            4.2            5.9         10.4
1989/2          4.5            3.5            7.8          7.8
1990/2          4.0            3.3            5.0          7.9
1991/2          4.0            3.2            6.0          7.3
1992/2,3        4.4            3.7            5.0          8.2
1993/2,3        4.5            3.9            5.8          6.7   
1994/2,3,4      5.3            4.2            6.6         10.0
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1/Not shown separately are non-Hispanics who are neither black nor white, but who are included in the total.

2/Numbers for these years reflect new editing procedures instituted by the Bureau of the Census for cases with missing data on school enrollment items.

3/Numbers for these years reflect new wording of the educational attainment item in the CPS.

4/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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