| Table 206. | Percent of students enrolled in postsecondary institutions, by disability status and student characteristics: 1992-93 |
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| | Graduate and
| Undergraduate | first-professional\1\
Selected student |---------------------------------|----------------------------------
characteristics | All | Disabled |Nondisabled| All | Disabled |Nondisabled
|students |students\2\| students |students |students\2\| students
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
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Total ........................| 100.0 | 6.3 | 93.7 | 100.0 | 4.0 | 96.0
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Sex ............................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Male .........................| 44.5 | 53.0 | 44.0 | 46.4 | 51.0 | 46.2
Female .......................| 55.5 | 47.0 | 56.0 | 53.6 | 49.0 | 53.8
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Race/ethnicity .................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
White, non-Hispanic ..........| 76.8 | 80.8 | 76.6 | 81.4 | 85.3 | 81.3
Black, non-Hispanic ..........| 10.3 | 9.3 | 10.3 | 6.4 | 4.4 | 6.4
Hispanic .....................| 8.0 | 6.3 | 8.1 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 3.9
Asian American ...............| 4.0 | 1.7 | 4.1 | 7.5 | 3.8 | 7.6
American Indian ..............| 1.0 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.7
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Age ............................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
15 to 23 .....................| 55.1 | 37.8 | 56.1 | 11.4 | 6.7 | 11.6
24 to 29 .....................| 17.1 | 15.2 | 17.2 | 34.7 | 20.4 | 35.2
30 or older ..................| 27.7 | 47.0 | 26.7 | 53.9 | 72.9 | 53.2
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Veteran status .................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Veteran ......................| 7.5 | 17.5 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 16.4 | 5.7
Not a veteran ................| 92.5 | 82.5 | 93.2 | 93.9 | 83.6 | 94.3
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Dependency status ..............| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Dependent ....................| 47.9 | 32.9 | 48.7 | 8.5 | 4.9 | 8.7
Independent ..................| 32.9 | 37.0 | 32.7 | 66.2 | 52.5 | 66.6
Independent with dependents ..| 19.2 | 30.1 | 18.6 | 25.3 | 42.6 | 24.7
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Housing status .................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
School-owned .................| 12.8 | 7.4 | 13.1 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 5.8
Off-campus, not with parents .| 58.8 | 69.7 | 58.2 | 84.2 | 84.1 | 84.2
With parents .................| 25.9 | 20.1 | 26.3 | 7.5 | 5.2 | 7.6
With relatives ...............| 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 2.2
Other ........................| 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1
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Attendance status ..............| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Full-time ....................| 52.6 | 46.3 | 52.9 | 37.1 | 33.8 | 37.2
Part-time ....................| 47.4 | 53.7 | 47.1 | 62.9 | 66.2 | 62.8
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Field of study .................| 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0
Business .....................| 22.8 | 21.9 | 22.8 | 16.0 | 11.5 | 16.2
Computer science .............| 4.6 | 6.2 | 4.5 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.0
Education ....................| 10.3 | 9.4 | 10.3 | 25.7 | 33.3 | 25.5
Engineering ..................| 6.9 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 6.6
Health .......................| 13.4 | 12.4 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 7.4 | 11.6
Humanities ...................| 11.3 | 11.9 | 11.3 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.5
Life sciences ................| 5.4 | 4.8 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 6.6 | 5.0
Mathematics ..................| 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 2.4 | 1.4
Physical sciences ............| 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.6
Social sciences ..............| 8.0 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 9.1 | 9.2 | 9.1
Vocational ...................| 5.3 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8
Other technical/professional .| 10.0 | 11.0 | 10.0 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 9.8
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| \1\Includes chiropractic medicine, medicine, dentistry, optometry, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy,
podiatry, and veterinary medicine.
\2\Disabled students are those who reported that they had one or more of the following conditions: a specific learning disability, a visual handicap, hard of hearing, deafness, a speech disability, an orthopedic handicap, or a health impairment. NOTE.--Because of rounding and survey item nonresponse, details may not add to totals. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "The 1992-93 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study." (This table was prepared October 1996.)
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