Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table C12-Standard errors for Table C11: Percentage of persons attending high school or below by sex, race ethnicity, and age: October 1994

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                                      Age                 
Characteristics           18    19    20   21    22   23    24
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   Total                 1.21  0.60  0.38 0.28  0.21 0.20  0.21

Sex
 Male                    1.79  0.92  0.54 0.41  0.34 0.30  0.32
 Female                  1.60  0.77  0.55 0.35  0.24 0.28  0.29

Race ethnicity */
 White, non-Hispanic     1.39  0.57  0.44 0.27  0.18 0.17  0.21
 Black, non-Hispanic     3.80  2.46  1.23 1.16  1.06 0.44  0.79
 Hispanic                5.67  3.54  1.76 1.41  1.37 1.79  1.24
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*/ Not shown separately are non-Hispanics who are neither black nor white, but who are included in the total.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1994, unpublished data.

[Appendix C: Table 11]

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