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TEXT Table 1. Table 2. Labor force status of 1993 high school graduates and 1992-93 school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by Labor force status of persons 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, educational attainment, sex, Technical information: Media contact: (202) 606-6378 606-6373 606-5902 USDL 94-252 For release: 10:00 A.M. EDT Friday, May 20, 1994 (NOTE: This news release was reissued on Friday, May 16, 2014, to correct data in table 2 for men and women with less than a bachelor's degree.) COLLEGE ENROLLMENT OF 1993 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES Sixty-three percent of June 1993 high school graduates were attending colleges or universities in the fall of 1993, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The enrollment rate had been 62 percent in both 1991 and 1992; in 1980, about half of the most recent high school graduates had enrolled in college by the fall. This information is from the Current Population Survey, a monthly nationwide survey of about 60,000 households conducted for BLS by the Bureau of the Census. Each October, the survey includes special questions on the school enrollment and high school graduation status of youth. Recent High School Graduates and Dropouts Of a total of 2.3 million youth who graduated from high school in June 1993, about 1.5 million went on to attend college in October. Young women continued to be more likely than young men to enter colleges or universities--65.4 versus 59.7 percent. (See table 1.) Sixty-four percent of the 1993 college freshmen were enrolled in 4year institutions, and about one-third of them were combining school with some labor force activity. In contrast, a much higher proportion--nearly two-thirds--of the youth enrolled in 2-year colleges were in the labor force. The labor force participation rate was 84 percent among the high school graduates who did not enroll in college in the fall of 1993. Despite steady improvement in the nation's employment situation since mid1992, the unemployment rate for this group, at 23.5 percent in October 1993, was higher than the 19.4 percent rate for 1992 graduates in the fall of that year. The rate for the class of 1991 a few months after graduation had been 25.3 percent. Between October of 1992 and of 1993, about 400,000 young people dropped out of high school. Only 64 percent of them were in the labor force last fall. As is typically the pattern, this was a much lower proportion than among the year's high school graduates who had not pursued higher education. Youth Enrolled in School A total of 15.8 million 16- to 24-year-olds were either enrolled in college (8.3 million) or high school (7.5 million) in October 1993, or about half of their overall noninstitutional population. Eight-three percent of the college students were enrolled full time, with 52 percent of them in the labor force. Among part-time college students, 9 out of 10 - 2 were in the labor force. The unemployment rate for all college students was 8.7 percent in October. The rate for full-time students was 10.0 percent, compared with 5.2 percent for those attending college part time. Among high school students, 39 percent were engaged in some labor force activity in October, and their jobless rate was 20.7 percent. Unemployment rates for black (41.9 percent) and Hispanic (34.2 percent ) high school students were much higher than for whites (18.3 percent). (See table 2.) Out-of-School Youth A total of 15.1 million youth age 16 to 24 were not enrolled in school in October 1993, and slightly more than 80 percent of them were in the labor force. About 9 out of 10 men and 7 out of 10 women not enrolled in school were in the labor force. High school dropouts face much more difficult school-to-work transitions than any other worker group. Thus, 16-24 year old high school dropouts in October 1993 had a much higher jobless rate--20.4 percent--than the 12.1 percent rate for youth who had completed high school but had not gone on to college and the 5.6 percent rate for college graduates. As was true among students, the jobless rates among minority out-of-school youth were much higher than those for white youth in October. -------------------------------------------------------------|Information in this release will be made available to sensory | |impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: 202-606-STAT;| |TDD phone: 202-606-5897; TDD message referral phone number: | |1-800-326-2577. | -------------------------------------------------------------Table 1. Labor force status of 1993 high school graduates and 1992-93 school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, October 1993 (Numbers in thousands) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | Civilian labor force | | | | ______________________________________________________ | Civilian | | | | | |noninsti- | | | Employed | Unemployed |Not in Characteristic | tutional | |Partici-| | |labor __________________ __________________ |population|Number | pation | | | | |force | | | rate | | Percent | | Percent | | | | |Number | of |Number| of | | | | | |population| |labor force| | | | | | | | | ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | Total, 1993 high school graduates....| 2,338 | 1,413 | 60.5 | 1,144 | 48.9 | 270 | 19.1 | 925 | | | | | | | | Men................................| 1,118 | 693 | 62.0 | 558 | 49.9 | 135 | 19.5 | 425 Women..............................| 1,219 | 720 | 59.0 | 586 | 48.0 | 134 | 18.6 | 500 | | | | | | | | White..............................| 1,910 | 1,217 | 63.7 | 1,002 | 52.5 | 215 | 17.7 | 693 Black..............................| 302 | 149 | 49.2 | 102 | 33.6 | 47 | 31.6 | 154 Hispanic origin....................| 200 | 131 | 65.7 | 86 | 42.9 | 46 | 34.8 | 68 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enrolled in college................| 1,464 | 677 | 46.3 | 580 | 39.6 | 97 | 14.3 | 787 | | | | | | | | Enrolled in 2-year college.......| 534 | 351 | 65.7 | 305 | 57.0 | 46 | 13.2 | 183 Enrolled in 4-year college.......| 930 | 326 | 35.1 | 276 | 29.6 | 51 | 15.5 | 604 | | | | | | | | Full-time students...............| 1,314 | 567 | 43.1 | 473 | 36.0 | 93 | 16.5 | 748 Part-time students...............| 150 | 111 | 73.6 | 107 | 71.3 | 3 | 3.2 | 40 | | | | | | | | Men..............................| 668 | 305 | 45.7 | 252 | 37.7 | 54 | 17.6 | 362 Women............................| 797 | 372 | 46.7 | 329 | 41.3 | 43 | 11.6 | 425 | | | | | | | | White............................| 1,200 | 585 | 48.7 | 511 | 42.6 | 74 | 12.6 | 615 Black............................| 168 | 62 | 37.1 | 45 | 26.9 | 17 | (1) | 106 Hispanic origin..................| 125 | 70 | 56.4 | 53 | 42.5 | 17 | (1) | 54 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not enrolled in college............| 873 | 736 | 84.3 | 563 | 64.5 | 173 | 23.5 | 137 | | | | | | | | Men..............................| 451 | 388 | 86.1 | 306 | 67.9 | 82 | 21.1 | 63 Women............................| 422 | 348 | 82.3 | 257 | 60.8 | 91 | 26.1 | 75 | | | | | | | | White............................| 710 | 632 | 89.1 | 491 | 69.2 | 141 | 22.4 | 77 Black............................| 134 | 86 | 64.3 | 57 | 42.2 | 30 | 34.4 | 48 Hispanic origin..................| 75 | 61 | 81.1 | 33 | 43.4 | 28 | (1) | 14 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total, 1992-93 high school dropouts2/| 399 | 254 | 63.8 | 187 | 47.0 | 67 | 26.3 | 145 | | | | | | | | Men................................| 213 | 156 | 73.5 | 132 | 61.8 | 25 | 15.9 | 57 Women..............................| 186 | 98 | 52.6 | 56 | 30.1 | 42 | 42.9 | 88 | | | | | | | | White..............................| 304 | 209 | 68.8 | 159 | 52.2 | 50 | 24.1 | 95 Black..............................| 80 | 34 | 42.9 | 21 | 26.2 | 13 | (1) | 46 Hispanic origin....................| 60 | 43 | (1) | 28 | 46.7 | 15 | (1) | 17 | | | | | | | | ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1/ Data not shown where base is less than 75,000. 2/ Data refer to persons who dropped out of school between October 1992 and October 1993. NOTE: Detail for the above race and Hispanicorigin groups will not sum to totals because Table 2. data for the "other races" group are not presented and Hispanics are included in both the white and black population groups. Because of rounding, sums of individual items may not equal totals. Labor force status of persons 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic origin, October 1993 (Numbers in thousands) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | Civilian labor force | | | | __________________________________________________________ | | | | | | Employed | Unemployed |Not in Characteristic |Partici-| | |labor ___________________ ____________________ |population| Number | pation | | | | |force | | | rate | | Percent | | Percent | | | | | Number | of | Number | of | | | | | |population| |labor force| | | | | | | | | __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Total, 16 to 24 years...........| 30,844 | 19,899 | 64.5 | 17,464 | 56.6 | 2,435 | 12.2 |10,944 | | | | | | | | Enrolled in school...................| 15,790 | 7,692 | 48.7 | 6,677 | 42.3 | 1,015 | 13.2 | 8,097 | | | | | | | | Enrolled in high school............| 7,478 | 2,876 | 38.5 | 2,282 | 30.5 | 595 | 20.7 | 4,602 Men..............................| 4,017 | 1,521 | 37.9 | 1,184 | 29.5 | 337 | 22.2 | 2,496 Women............................| 3,461 | 1,355 | 39.2 | 1,098 | 31.7 | 257 | 19.0 | 2,106 | | | | | | | | White............................| 5,830 | 2,511 | 43.1 | 2,053 | 35.2 | 458 | 18.3 | 3,318 Black............................| 1,323 | 288 | 21.8 | 167 | 12.7 | 121 | 41.9 | 1,034 Hispanic origin..................| 894 | 281 | 31.4 | 185 | 20.7 | 96 | 34.2 | 614 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enrolled in college................| 8,311 | 4,816 | 58.0 | 4,396 | 52.9 | 420 | 8.7 | 3,495 | | | | | | | | Enrolled in 2-year college.......| 2,396 | 1,725 | 72.0 | 1,565 | 65.3 | 160 | 9.3 | 672 Enrolled in 4-year college.......| 5,915 | 3,092 | 52.3 | 2,831 | 47.9 | 260 | 8.4 | 2,824 | | | | | | | | Full-time students...............| 6,906 | 3,559 | 51.5 | 3,205 | 46.4 | 355 | 10.0 | 3,347 Part-time students...............| 1,405 | 1,257 | 89.4 | 1,191 | 84.8 | 66 | 5.2 | 149 | | | | | | | | Men..............................| 4,045 | 2,315 | 57.2 | 2,096 | 51.8 | 219 | 9.5 | 1,731 Women............................| 4,266 | 2,501 | 58.6 | 2,300 | 53.9 | 201 | 8.0 | 1,765 | | | | | | | | White............................| 6,859 | 4,185 | 61.0 | 3,888 | 56.7 | 296 | 7.1 | 2,674 Black............................| 872 | 398 | 45.6 | 301 | 34.5 | 97 | 24.3 | 475 Hispanic origin..................| 616 | 389 | 63.1 | 335 | 54.4 | 53 | 13.8 | 227 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not enrolled in school...............| 15,054 | 12,207 | 81.1 | 10,787 | 71.7 | 1,420 | 11.6 | 2,847 16 to 19 years.....................| 2,937 | 2,177 | 74.1 | 1,732 | 59.0 | 445 | 20.4 | 760 20 to 24 years.....................| 12,117 | 10,030 | 82.8 | 9,055 | 74.7 | 975 | 9.7 | 2,087 | | | | | | | | | Civilian | |noninsti- | | tutional | Men................................| 7,296 | 6,618 | 90.7 | 5,854 | 80.2 | 764 | 11.5 | 678 Less than a high school diploma..| 1,713 | 1,423 | 83.1 | 1,174 | 68.5 | 249 | 17.5 | 290 High school graduates, no college| 3,417 | 3,129 | 91.6 | 2,746 | 80.4 | 383 | 12.2 | 288 Less than a bachelor's degree....| 1,495c | 1,416c| 94.7c | 1,330c| 89.0c | 86c| 6.1c | 79c College graduates................| 671 | 650 | 96.9 | 604 | 90.1 | 46 | 7.0 | 21 | | | | | | | | Women..............................| 7,758 | 5,589 | 72.0 | 4,933 | 63.6 | 656 | 11.7 | 2,169 Less than a high school diploma..| 1,677 | 661 | 39.4 | 484 | 28.9 | 177 | 26.8 | 1,016 High school graduates, no college| 3,402 | 2,523 | 74.2 | 2,223 | 65.3 | 301 | 11.9 | 879 Less than a bachelor's degree....| 1,769c | 1,531c| 86.5c | 1,391c| 78.6c | 139c| 9.1c | 239c College graduates................| 910 | 875 | 96.1 | 835 | 91.8 | 39 | 4.5 | 35 | | | | | | | | White..............................| 12,122 | 10,153 | 83.8 | 9,117 | 75.2 | 1,037 | 10.2 | 1,969 Black..............................| 2,401 | 1,675 | 69.7 | 1,331 | 55.4 | 344 | 20.5 | 726 Hispanic origin....................| 2,079 | 1,498 | 72.1 | 1,231 | 59.2 | 268 | 17.9 | 581 | | | | | | | | __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ c = corrected