Table C5: Rate, number, and distribution of status dropouts, by age: October 1995

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                    Status   Number of                     Percent    Percent
                    dropout  status      Population        of all       of
Age                  rate    dropouts   (in thousands)     dropouts   population
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   Total             12.0     3876          32379            100.0     100.0
Age
 16                   5.3     202            3806              5.2      11.8
 17                   5.5     203            3673              5.2      11.3
 18                  12.9     477            3687             12.3      11.4
 19                  16.3     574            3511             14.8      10.8
 20                  14.9     505            3392             13.0      10.5
 21                  12.7     424            3345             10.9      10.3
 22                  14.1     484            3437             12.5      10.6
 23                  13.6     483            3564             12.5      11.0
 24                  13.2     524            3965             13.5      12.2
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NOTE: Percentages may not sum to 100 percent due to rounding.
 
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population
Survey, October 1994, unpublished data. 

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