Table C7. Percentage of 2009 9th-grade students by their first postsecondary institution level, and by college plans of their close friends (HSLS:09)

Characteristic	No postsecondary enrollment	First enrollment at 2-year institution	First enrollment at 4-year institution
Total	28.5	27.9	43.6

Close friends had 2-year community college plans
All of them	35.6	34.7	29.7
More than half	36.8	36.9	26.3
About half	33.5	39.2	27.3
Less than half	22.8	25.8	51.4
None of them	20.8	14.4	64.7

Close friends had 4-year college plans
All of them	12.4	19.1	68.5
More than half	16.5	26.1	57.4
About half	29.7	35.5	34.8
Less than half	47.4	34.6	18.0
None of them	72.0	22.4	5.5
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 X4PS1LEVEL. 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.