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Postsecondary Participation and Attainment Among Traditional-Age Students
Table S22.  Standard errors for the percentage of 1972, 1982, and 1992 12th-graders who entered postsecondary education, and among those who earned more than 10 credits or more than 10 credits and any from a 4-year institution, percentage who earned a bachelor’s degree within 8.5 years

Year Entered at least one
postsecondary institution
Among those who
 earned more than 10 credits,
earned a bachelor's degree
Among those who
earned more than 10
credits and any credits
from a 4-year institution,
earned a bachelor's degree

1972 0.53 0.63 0.68
1982 0.68 0.92 1.02
1992 0.87 1.13 1.07

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, “Fifth Follow-up” (NLS:72/86), High School and Beyond Longitudinal Study of 1980 Sophomores, “Postsecondary Education Transcript Study” (HS&B-So:PETS), and National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), “Fourth Follow-up, Postsecondary Transcript Survey, 2000,” previously unpublished tabulation (November 2004).

 
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