Table 5.Percentage distribution of 2003-2004 high school seniors, by postsecondary enrollment status in 2006, and student and family characteristics: 2006

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Table 5. Percentage distribution of 2003-2004 high school seniors, by postsecondary enrollment status in 2006, and student and family characteristics: 2006

Characteristic	Enrolled in 2006 ¹	Not enrolled in 2006²	Never enrolled³
Total	61.1	15.1	23.9

Sex
Female	66.6	14.6	18.8
Male	56.9	15.8	27.3

Race/ethnicity⁴
White, non-Hispanic	66.5	14.1	19.4
Black, non-Hispanic	52.4	18.9	28.7
Hispanic	49.5	17.5	33.0
Asian, non-Hispanic	78.2	9.3	12.5
All other races, non-Hispanic	52.5	17.5	30.0

Family socio-economic status
Lowest quartile	41.7	17.9	40.3
Second quartile	52.2	18.0	29.8
Third quartile	66.1	16.1	17.8
Highest quartile	82.8	9.6	7.6


Native language⁵
English	62.7	15.0	22.3
Non-English	56.4	16.2	27.4

¹ Enrolled in 2006 includes all respondents who were enrolled in postsecondary education at the time of the 2006 survey regardless of when they first enrolled.
² Not enrolled in 2006 includes respondents who indicated an "immediate" postsecondary enrollment but were no longer enrolled at the time of the second follow-up in 2006; or who indicated a delayed postsecondary enrollment but were no longer enrolled at the time of the second follow-up in 2006.
³ Never enrolled includes respondents who had not been enrolled in postsecondary institutions at any time since leaving high school, or were still enrolled in high school at the time of the second follow-up in 2006.
⁴ Black, non-Hispanic includes African American. Hispanic includes Latino. All other races, non-Hispanic includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, and Two or more races.
⁵ The first language the student learned to speak.
NOTE: Respondents could give more than one source. All estimates are weighted by F2F1WT. The flag variable G12COHRT was used to produce data that are based on 2003-2004 high school seniors interviewed in both 2004 and 2006.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) Second Follow-up, 2006."

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