Dropout Rates in the United States: 1994

Table A20-Standard errors for Table 20: Percentage of 1988 eighth graders never enrolled in postsecondary education by race-ethnicity, by high school completion status, spring 1994

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                                          Asian/                Black,     White,
                                         Pacific                 non-       non-      Native
                                 Total   Islander   Hispanic   Hispanic   Hispanic   American
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   Total                         0.77      2.38       2.01       2.01       0.85       5.00

High school completion status
 High school graduate            0.64      1.95       2.04       1.93       0.70       6.17
 GED/certificate                 2.91       -         4.55       7.85       3.43        -
 Enrolled                        1.56       -         1.84       1.76       2.58        -
 Dropout                         1.95       -         0.63       9.52       1.39        - 
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-Insufficient sample size to compute reliable estimate.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, Third Followup Survey, 1994, unpublished data.

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