Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A15-Standard errors for Table 15: Completion rates and number and distribution of completers, ages 18 through 24 years old, by sex, race-ethnicity, and region: October 1994

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                        Completion rate         Percent of all completers
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                     Standard   Population
Characteristics       error   (in thousands)          Standard error
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    Total              0.39         86                       -

Sex
 Male                  0.58         62                     0.73
 Female                0.52         59                     0.72

Race ethnicity/*
 White, non-Hispanic   0.38         59                     0.58
 Black, non-Hispanic   1.31         40                     1.11
 Hispanic              2.62         66                     1.44

Region
 Northeast             0.66         28                     0.80
 Midwest               0.63         34                     0.89
 South                 0.73         57                     0.84
 West                  0.98         46                     0.94
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-Not applicable.

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, October 1994, unpublished data.

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