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Number of
Status Status Percent Percent
dropout dropouts of all of
Characteristics rate (in thousands) dropouts population
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Total 1.64 74
Never enrolled in U.S. schools
Dropouts 3.27 1.24
Graduates 0.73
Ever enrolled in U.S. schools 1.58 58 3.27 1.39
Born in U.S. 1.82 47 3.10 1.78
Foreign-born 3.07 34 2.59 1.55
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-/ Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.