Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table B2-Number and percent of status dropouts, ages 16-24: October 1993 and October 1994

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                                         Percent Percent change
                                         change  of all dropouts
                      1993      1994     1993 94     1993 94
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Unweighted               
 Total              1,671      1,651      -1.2        -   
 White                871        828      -4.9       -2.0
 Black                259        231     -10.8       -1.5
 Hispanic             466        507       8.8        2.8

Weighted (in thousands)             
 Total              3,396      3,727       9.7        -   
 White              1,707      1,709       0.1       -4.4
 Black                615        607      -1.3       -1.8
 Hispanic             989      1,322      33.7        6.3     
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- Not applicable.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October (various years), unpublished data.

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