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Dropout Rates in the United States: 2005
NCES 2007-059
June 2007

Table B–7.  Standard errors for table 8: Status dropout rates of 16- through 24-year-olds, by sex and race/ethnicity: October 1972 through October 2005

Year Total
(percent)
      Race/ethnicity (percent)
Sex (percent) White,
non–
Hispanic
Black,
non–
Hispanic
Hispanic
Male Female
                 
1972 0.28   0.40 0.39   0.29 1.07 2.22
1973 0.27   0.38 0.38   0.28 1.06 2.24
1974 0.27   0.39 0.38   0.28 1.05 2.08
1975 0.27   0.37 0.38   0.27 1.06 2.02
1976 0.26   0.38 0.37   0.28 1.01 2.01
                 
1977 0.27   0.38 0.37   0.28 1.00 2.02
1978 0.27   0.38 0.37   0.28 1.00 2.00
1979 0.27   0.39 0.37   0.28 1.01 1.98
1980 0.26   0.39 0.36   0.27 0.97 1.89
1981 0.26   0.38 0.35   0.27 0.93 1.80
                 
1982 0.27   0.40 0.38   0.29 0.98 1.93
1983 0.27   0.41 0.37   0.29 0.97 1.93
1984 0.27   0.40 0.37   0.29 0.92 1.91
1985 0.27   0.40 0.37   0.29 0.92 1.93
1986 0.27   0.40 0.37   0.28 0.90 1.88
                 
1987 0.28   0.40 0.38   0.30 0.91 1.84
1988 0.30   0.44 0.42   0.32 1.00 2.30
1989 0.31   0.45 0.42   0.32 0.98 2.19
1990 0.29   0.42 0.41   0.30 0.94 1.91
1991 0.30   0.43 0.41   0.31 0.95 1.93
                 
1992 0.28   0.41 0.39   0.29 0.95 1.86
1993 0.28   0.40 0.40   0.29 0.94 1.79
1994 0.26   0.38 0.36   0.27 0.75 1.16
1995 0.27   0.38 0.37   0.28 0.74 1.15
1996 0.27   0.36 0.36   0.26 0.75 1.13
                 
1997 0.27   0.39 0.36   0.28 0.80 1.11
1998 0.27   0.40 0.36   0.28 0.81 1.12
1999 0.26   0.38 0.36   0.27 0.77 1.11
2000 0.26   0.38 0.35   0.26 0.78 1.08
2001 0.25   0.38 0.34   0.26 0.71 1.06
                 
2002 0.24   0.35 0.32   0.24 0.70 0.93
2003 0.23   0.34 0.30   0.24 0.69 0.90
2004 0.23   0.34 0.31   0.24 0.70 0.89
2005 0.22   0.33 0.29   0.23 0.66 0.87
NOTE: Some of the standard error estimates in this table may differ from those previously published because of changes in the generalized variance parameters developed by the U.S. Census Bureau.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey (CPS), October (1972–2005).

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