------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of Status status Percent Percent dropout dropouts of all of Characteristics rate (in thousands) dropouts population ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 0.29 93 Grade repetition Ever retained 1.04 45 1.13 0.30 Never retained 0.29 80 1.13 0.30 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Not applicable.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1995, unpublished data.