America's Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20

摘要

Twenty-year-old male high school graduates were less likely to be enrolled in college than 20-year-old women while men who had been enrolled were more likely to drop out, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Women were more likely to have graduated from high school, and those who had graduated were more likely to attend college. In addition, women enrolled in college during October when they were age 19 were less likely than their male counterparts to have dropped out by the following October. These findings are from the first nine annual rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which is a nationally representative survey of about 9,000 young men and women who were born during the years 1980 to 1984. These respondents were ages 12 to 17 when first interviewed in 1997 and ages 20 to 26 when interviewed for the ninth time in 2005-06. The survey provides information on the employment experiences, schooling, family background, social behavior, and other characteristics of these youths.