Table C6. Percentage of 2009 9th-grade students who attended college by February 2016, by college plans of their close friends (HSLS:09)

Characteristic	Ever attended Ever college by Feb 2016	Never attended college by Feb 2016
Total	72.4	27.6

Close friends had 2-year community college plans
All of them	66.4	33.6
More than half	63.9	36.1
About half	68.0	32.0
Less than half	77.7	22.3
None of them	79.4	20.6

Close friends had 4-year college plans
All of them	87.8	12.2
More than half	83.8	16.2
About half	71.1	28.9
Less than half	54.7	45.3
None of them	30.6	69.4
NOTE: Students who responded that they didn't know their close friend's postsecondary plans were not included. Students whose first postsecondary enrollment was at a less than 2-year institution were not included.' The names of the variables used in this table are: S2FR4Y, S2FR2YPUB and S4EVRATNDCLG. Wording for the question can be viewed here: https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/hsls09/pdf/2012_student.pdf. The weight variable used in this table is W4W1W2W3STU.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) Second Follow-Up.