Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A8-Standard errors for Table 8: Status dropout rate, ages 16-24, by region and race-ethnicity: October 1994

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                                          Race ethnicity/*
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                                  White,         Black,        
Region                  Total  non-Hispanic   non-Hispanic   Hispanic
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    Total               0.28       0.29           0.89         1.66

Region
 Northeast              0.49       0.49           1.87         3.74
 Midwest                0.47       0.47           2.05         5.06
 South                  0.52       0.60           1.22         2.78
 West                   0.69       0.66           2.83         2.60
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*/Not shown separately are non-Hispanics who are neither black nor white, but who are included in the total.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1994, unpublished data.

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