Document Number: 5608Dropout Rates in the United States: 2001 - Data from the U.S. Census Bureau are used to compute national high school dropout and completion rates, disaggregated by background characteristics such as sex, race/ethnicity, family income, age, region of the country and state. Statistics are reported using three types of dropout calculation methods – event, status and cohort – and an explanation is provided on how each of these three methods can result in varying reported rates. The authors note that in 2000–01, the four-year completion rates ranged from a high of 90.1% in North Dakota to a low of 65.0% in Louisiana. This report can also be browsed by section. (Phillip Kaufman, Martha Naomi Alt and Christopher D. Chapman, National Center for Education Statistics, November 2004)...
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