Youth Indicators, 2005: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth

Indicator 22: College Enrollment

Table 22. Enrollment of 18- to 24-year-olds in degree-granting institutions as a percentage of all 18- to 24-year-olds, by sex and race/ethnicity: Various years, 1970 to 2003
			Enrollment rates as a percentage of all 18- to 24-year olds
			Sex		Race/ethnicity
Year	Total enrollment, in thousands	Total	Male	Female	White, non-Hispanic	Black, non-Hispanic	Hispanic
1970¹	5,804	25.7	32.1	20.3	27.1	15.5	—
1975	6,936	26.3	29.0	23.7	27.4	20.4	20.4
1980	7,227	25.7	26.4	25.0	27.3	19.4	16.1
1981	7,574	26.1	27.1	25.2	27.7	19.9	16.6
1982	7,677	26.6	27.2	26.0	28.1	19.9	16.8
1983	7,477	26.2	27.3	25.1	27.9	19.2	17.3
1984	7,592	27.1	28.6	25.6	28.9	20.3	17.9
1985	7,538	27.8	28.4	27.2	30.0	19.6	16.9
1986	7,397	27.9	28.2	27.6	29.7	21.9	17.6
1987	7,694	29.6	30.6	28.7	31.9	22.8	17.5
1988	7,791	30.3	30.2	30.4	33.2	21.2	17.0
1989	7,803	30.9	30.2	31.6	34.2	23.4	16.1
1990	7,964	32.0	32.3	31.8	35.1	25.4	15.8
1991	8,171	33.3	32.8	33.6	36.8	23.5	17.9
1992	8,342	34.4	32.7	36.0	37.3	25.2	21.3
1993	8,193	34.0	33.6	34.4	36.8	24.5	21.7
1994	8,729	34.6	33.1	36.0	38.1	27.7	18.8
1995	8,539	34.3	33.1	35.5	37.9	27.5	20.7
1996	8,768	35.5	34.1	37.0	39.5	27.4	20.1
1997	9,199	36.8	35.0	38.7	40.6	29.8	22.4
1998	9,322	36.5	34.5	38.6	40.6	29.8	20.4
1999	9,259	35.6	34.1	37.0	39.4	30.4	18.7
2000	9,452	35.5	32.6	38.4	38.7	30.5	21.7
2001	9,845	36.3	33.6	39.0	39.5	31.4	21.7
2002	10,033	36.7	33.7	39.7	40.9	31.9	19.9
2003	10,364	37.8	34.3	41.3	41.6	32.3	23.5
— Not available.
¹Data for White and Black enrollment include persons of Hispanic origin.
NOTE: Data are based upon sample surveys of the civilian noninstitutional population. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Surveys (CPS), October, various years, unpublished tabulations.

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