Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2008

NCES 2011-012 December 2010

Table C-7. Standard errors for table 8: Status dropout rates of 16- through 24-year-olds, by sex and race/ethnicity: October 1972 through October 2008

			Sex (percent)			Race/ethnicity (percent)
Year	Total (percent)		Male	Female		White non- Hispanic	Black non- Hispanic	Hispanic
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
2006	0.22		0.33	0.30		0.23	0.66	0.86
2007	0.21		0.32	0.29		0.22	0.59	0.83
2008	0.20		0.30	0.28		0.21	0.63	0.78
NOTE: Some of the standard error estimates in this table may differ from those previously published due to 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 1972–2008.