Table 5. Employment status during the October when ages 19 and 20 in 1999-2005 of youths not enrolled in school at age 19 or 20 by high school graduation status, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

Table 5.  Employment status during the October when ages 19 and 20 in 1999-2005 of youths not enrolled
in school at age 19 or 20 by high school graduation status, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

(Percent distribution)

                                                                 Percent of youths (1)

High school graduation status                  Not employed   Employed at     Employed at    Employed
during the October when age 20                  in either     age 19, but     age 20, but      both
                                      Total      October       not age 20      not age 19      years

High school dropouts ...............  100.0       27.7            16.5           16.8          39.0

  Men ..............................  100.0       23.4            16.1           16.0          44.5
  Women ............................  100.0       33.8            17.0           17.9          31.4

  White, non-Hispanic ..............  100.0       22.2            15.7           15.7          46.4
  Black, non-Hispanic ..............  100.0       43.1            16.1           20.1          20.7
  Hispanic or Latino ...............  100.0       26.2            18.3           17.1          38.4

High school graduates,
not enrolled in college (2).........  100.0       10.3            10.5           12.4          66.7

  Men ..............................  100.0        8.3             9.2           11.1          71.4
  Women ............................  100.0       12.9            12.2           14.0          60.9

  White, non-Hispanic ..............  100.0        7.5            10.1           10.9          71.4
  Black, non-Hispanic ..............  100.0       20.3            12.7           16.9          50.0
  Hispanic or Latino ...............  100.0       12.1             8.8           14.7          64.5

   1 The employed category includes both civilian employment and enlistment in the Armed Forces.
   2 Respondents who have received a General Educational Development (GED) credential are counted
as high school graduates.
   NOTE:  The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 consists of young men and women who were
ages 12 to 16 on December 31, 1996.  Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity groups are mutually
exclusive but not exhaustive.  Other race groups, which are included in the overall totals, are
not shown separately because their representation in the survey sample is not sufficiently large to
provide statistically reliable estimates.

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