Table 1. Labor force status of 2012 high school graduates and 2011-12 high school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment, educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, October 2012
Table 1. Labor force status of 2012 high school graduates and 2011-12 high school dropouts 16 to 24 years old by school enrollment,
educational attainment, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, October 2012
(Numbers in thousands)
Civilian labor force
Civilian Not in
Characteristic noninsti- Employed Unemployed labor
tutional Percent of force
population Total population
Total Percent of Number Rate
population
Total, 2012 high school graduates (1)... 3,203 1,563 48.8 1,161 36.3 402 25.7 1,639
Men.................................... 1,622 783 48.2 547 33.7 235 30.0 840
Women.................................. 1,581 781 49.4 614 38.8 167 21.4 800
White.................................. 2,421 1,229 50.8 973 40.2 256 20.8 1,192
Black or African American.............. 471 227 48.2 123 26.1 104 45.8 244
Asian.................................. 174 47 26.9 29 16.6 18 (2) 127
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity........... 697 296 42.4 224 32.1 71 24.2 402
Enrolled in college.................... 2,121 811 38.2 667 31.5 143 17.7 1,310
Enrolled in 2-year college............ 921 441 47.9 367 39.9 74 16.7 480
Enrolled in 4-year college............ 1,200 370 30.8 300 25.0 70 18.8 830
Full-time students.................... 1,863 632 33.9 523 28.1 109 17.2 1,231
Part-time students.................... 258 179 69.2 144 55.9 35 19.3 79
Men................................... 994 342 34.4 272 27.4 70 20.4 652
Women................................. 1,127 469 41.6 395 35.1 74 15.7 658
White................................. 1,613 657 40.7 559 34.7 97 14.8 956
Black or African American............. 274 88 32.0 63 22.9 25 28.7 186
Asian................................. 143 29 20.0 19 13.1 10 (2) 114
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.......... 490 178 36.4 155 31.7 23 12.9 312
Not enrolled in college................ 1,082 753 69.6 494 45.7 259 34.4 329
Men................................... 628 441 70.2 275 43.8 166 37.5 187
Women................................. 454 312 68.7 219 48.2 93 29.9 142
White................................. 808 572 70.8 414 51.2 159 27.7 236
Black or African American............. 197 139 70.8 60 30.8 79 56.6 57
Asian................................. 31 18 (2) 10 (2) 8 (2) 13
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.......... 207 117 56.6 69 33.2 49 41.4 90
Total, 2011-12 high school dropouts (3) 370 174 47.2 88 23.8 86 49.6 195
Men.................................... 192 111 57.9 60 31.1 52 46.3 81
Women.................................. 178 63 35.5 28 15.9 35 (2) 115
White.................................. 197 93 47.6 62 31.5 31 33.7 103
Black or African American.............. 124 59 47.6 13 10.3 46 (2) 65
Asian.................................. 19 18 (2) 10 (2) 8 (2) 1
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity........... 134 74 54.9 46 33.9 28 (2) 60
1 Data refer to persons who graduated from high school in January through October 2012.
2 Data not shown where base is less than 75,000.
3 Data refer to persons who dropped out of school between October 2011 and October 2012.
NOTE: Detail for the above race groups (white, black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not
presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Because of rounding, sums of
individual items may not equal totals.Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash
represents or rounds to zero.