October 19, 1998 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
More high school graduates
enrolling in college
Sixty-seven percent of 1997 high school
graduates were enrolled in colleges or universities in the fall. This proportion has risen
by 5 percentage points over the last two years, after remaining steady from 1992 to 1995
at about 62 percent.
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Two-thirds of the new college students were enrolled in 4-year
institutions. The remaining one-third attended 2-year colleges.
More than 70 percent of young female high school graduates entered
college, compared with 63.5 percent of male graduates. Both white and Hispanic graduates
were more likely to be enrolled in college (67.5 and 65.5 percent, respectively) than were
blacks (59.6 percent).
This information is from a supplement to the October 1997 Current Population
Survey (CPS), a monthly nationwide survey of about 50,000 households that provides
basic data on national employment and unemployment. Additional information is available
from news release USDL 98-171, "College
Enrollment and Work Activity of 1997 High School Graduates".
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
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