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Number of
Status Status Percent Percent
Language dropout dropouts of all of
spoken rate (in thousands) dropouts population
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Total 1.64 74
Speaks only English 3.19 29 2.27 1.45
Speak Spanish 1.88 67 2.27 1.45
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-/ Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.