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                                | 2-year college students starting in 1989-90  |   Students seeking bachelor's degrees in 1989-90
                                |----------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------
            Student             |                             |  No degree by  |  Highest degree completed, not  |         |   No
        characteristics         |      Attained by 1994\1\    |     1994       |enrolled for bachelor's degree\2\|  Still  | degree,
                                |-----------------------------|----------------|---------------------------------|enrolled |  not
                                |      |Certifi-|Asso- |Bache-|        |Not en-|Total, any|Certifi-|Asso- |Bache-|for bach-|   en-
                                |Total |  cate  |ciate |lor's |Enrolled|rolled |  degree  |  cate  |ciate |lor's |elor's\3\|rolled\4\
--------------------------------|------|--------|------|------|--------|-------|----------|--------|------|------|---------|---------
               1                |  2   |   3    |  4   |  5   |   6    |   7   |    8     |   9    |  10  |  11  |   12    |   13
--------------------------------|------|--------|------|------|--------|-------|----------|--------|------|------|---------|---------
Total ..........................| 36.7 |   12.9 | 17.5 |  6.3 |   14.7 |  48.6 |     54.3 |    3.3 |  5.1 | 45.8 |    17.5 |    28.3
                                |------|--------|------|------|--------|-------|----------|--------|------|------|---------|---------
  Male .........................| 33.8 |   12.7 | 15.5 |  5.6 |   17.1 |  49.1 |     48.8 |    2.7 |  4.8 | 41.3 |    20.3 |    30.9
  Female .......................| 39.6 |   13.2 | 19.5 |  7.0 |   12.4 |  48.1 |     59.7 |    4.0 |  5.4 | 50.3 |    14.6 |    25.7
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Race                            |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  White, non-Hispanic ..........| 37.3 |   12.3 | 18.4 |  6.6 |   13.0 |  49.7 |     56.4 |    3.3 |  4.9 | 48.1 |    16.6 |    27.0
  Black, non-Hispanic ..........| 31.8 |   16.1 | 12.5 |  3.1 |   13.2 |  55.1 |     45.2 |    3.6 |  7.3 | 34.3 |    18.0 |    36.8
  Hispanic .....................| 38.0 |   15.2 | 15.6 |  7.2 |   22.2 |  39.8 |     41.3 |    5.4 |  3.5 | 32.4 |    22.1 |    36.6
  Asian/Pacific Islander .......|  --- |    --- |  --- |  --- |    --- |   --- |     52.8 |    0.6 |  5.3 | 46.8 |    21.8 |    25.5
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Socioeconomic status            |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
 in 1989-90                     |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Low (25 percent) .............| 30.2 |   17.7 | 10.6 |  1.9 |   10.3 |  59.5 |     31.7 |    3.8 |  5.7 | 22.1 |    16.5 |    51.8
  Middle (50 percent) ..........| 34.3 |   13.7 | 15.0 |  5.7 |   16.4 |  49.3 |     47.1 |    3.5 |  4.8 | 38.9 |    19.4 |    33.5
  High (25 percent) ............| 44.8 |    8.7 | 26.1 | 10.1 |   14.5 |  40.7 |     61.5 |    3.2 |  5.3 | 52.9 |    16.3 |    22.3
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Dependent student family        |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
 income in 1989-90              |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Less than $20,000 ............| 39.4 |   12.0 | 21.4 |  5.9 |   15.5 |  45.2 |     43.2 |    1.4 |  4.9 | 36.9 |    19.2 |    37.6
  $20,000 to $39,999 ...........| 43.4 |   12.8 | 20.5 | 10.0 |   13.8 |  42.9 |     52.6 |    4.1 |  5.3 | 43.2 |    18.2 |    29.2
  $40,000 to $59,999 ...........| 42.4 |   11.2 | 21.9 |  9.3 |   13.1 |  44.6 |     57.0 |    4.4 |  4.1 | 48.5 |    16.1 |    26.9
  $60,000 or more ..............| 46.9 |    5.4 | 31.5 | 10.0 |   24.6 |  28.5 |     68.1 |    1.5 |  6.0 | 60.6 |    16.0 |    15.9
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Diploma/delayed entry status\5\ |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Diploma, did not delay .......| 45.5 |   10.6 | 24.9 | 10.0 |   16.3 |  38.3 |     58.2 |    2.9 |  4.9 | 50.3 |    17.0 |    24.8
  Diploma, delayed entry .......| 26.4 |   16.3 |  8.6 |  1.5 |   14.5 |  59.1 |     30.9 |    6.6 |  7.1 | 17.3 |    21.5 |    47.6
  No diploma .................. | 21.8 |   14.2 |  5.9 |  1.7 |    4.5 |  73.7 |     21.0 |    3.7 |  2.4 | 15.0 |    14.1 |    64.8
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Age (as of 12/31/89)            |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  18 years or younger ..........| 47.4 |    9.4 | 26.1 | 11.9 |   14.9 |  37.7 |     59.2 |    2.9 |  4.9 | 51.4 |    16.4 |    24.5
  19 years ...................  | 31.9 |   12.7 | 17.1 |  2.2 |   20.8 |  47.3 |     45.8 |    3.4 |  4.2 | 38.3 |    21.1 |    33.0
  20 to 29 years ...............| 27.3 |   16.4 |  8.3 |  2.5 |   13.0 |  59.8 |     36.3 |    7.9 |  9.4 | 19.0 |    19.6 |    44.1
  30 years or over .............| 25.7 |   18.2 |  6.9 |  0.6 |    9.2 |  65.1 |     19.1 |    3.3 |  6.0 |  9.8 |    17.3 |    63.5
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Marital status                  |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Never married ................| 41.1 |   11.8 | 21.1 |  8.1 |   16.2 |  42.7 |     56.8 |    3.4 |  5.3 | 48.1 |    17.4 |    25.8
  Married ....................  | 26.3 |   15.4 |  8.7 |  2.2 |    9.2 |  64.5 |     26.7 |    4.2 |  2.4 | 20.1 |    17.8 |    55.5
  Divorced, widowed, separated .| 29.9 |   25.6 |  3.3 |  1.0 |    8.8 |  61.2 |     21.7 |    0.6 |  9.5 | 11.6 |    18.4 |    59.9
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Expected degree level           |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
for 2-year students             |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Less than 2 years ............| 23.9 |   19.8 |  4.1 |  0.0 |   12.3 |  63.8 |      --- |    --- |  --- |  --- |     --- |     ---
  2 to 4 years .................| 30.2 |   18.3 | 10.5 |  1.4 |   11.8 |  58.0 |      --- |    --- |  --- |  --- |     --- |     ---
  Bachelor's or higher .........| 40.6 |    9.9 | 21.7 |  9.0 |   16.1 |  43.3 |      --- |    --- |  --- |  --- |     --- |     ---
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Average hours worked per        |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
 week while enrolled            |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  None .........................| 40.5 |   21.2 | 13.8 |  5.6 |   11.1 |  48.4 |     56.2 |    2.0 |  4.4 | 49.8 |    17.8 |    26.0
  1 to 20 hours ................| 45.4 |   12.2 | 23.7 |  9.6 |   14.6 |  40.0 |     59.0 |    2.5 |  5.2 | 51.3 |    16.4 |    24.5
  More than  20 hours ..........| 33.3 |   10.9 | 16.8 |  5.6 |   15.7 |  51.0 |     50.3 |    4.5 |  5.4 | 40.4 |    17.9 |    31.7
                                |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
Received financial aid          |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
 during 1989-90                 |      |        |      |      |        |       |          |        |      |      |         |
  Yes ..........................| 39.9 |   13.1 | 17.3 |  9.6 |    8.6 |  51.5 |     60.4 |    2.2 |  3.2 | 55.1 |    13.8 |    25.8
  No ...........................| 35.5 |   12.9 | 17.6 |  5.0 |   17.0 |  47.5 |     48.4 |    4.5 |  7.0 | 36.9 |    21.0 |    30.7
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1 Highest degree attained at any institution. Students who have attained may also be enrolled.

2 Status as of 1994. Includes those students who are no longer working towards a bachelor's degree, but who had completed another type of degree or award.

3 Status as of 1994. Includes students who had completed another type of degree or award (associate degree: 11.8 percent, certificate: 2.7 percent) but are still working toward a bachelor's degree.

4 Status as of 1994. Enrollment can be full-time or part-time. Includes students who are still enrolled, but are no longer working toward a bachelor's degree.

5 Students were considered to have a diploma only if they had a regular high school diploma. Students with a GED or other high school credentials were considered to have no diploma.

---Data not available or not applicable.

NOTE.--Data reflect completion and enrollment status by spring 1994 of first-time postsecondary students starting academic year 1989-90. Some cells in this table have relatively large sampling errors. See sampling error table in appendix.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Beginning Postsecondary Student Longitudinal Survey, 1994. (This table was prepared September 1996.)