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Title: Comparing Alternative Measures of High School Completion
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1. Mishel, Lawrence
Roy, Joydeep
Comparing Alternative Measures of High School Completion
In: Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends. Mishel, Lawrence and Joydeep Roy, ed. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, April 2006.
Also: http://www.epi.org/books/rethinking_hs_grad_rates/rethinking_hs_grad_rates-FULL_TEXT.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Keyword(s): Census of Population; Ethnic Differences; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development; High School; High School and Beyond (HSB); High School Diploma; High School Dropouts; Hispanics; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Racial Differences

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[Section VIII] presents a direct comparison of nationwide high school completion by race/ethnicity in each of the three data sources discussed in the previous sections (school enrollment/diploma data, longitudinal surveys of students, and household surveys). The first focus is on those aged 25 to 29 in 2000 in CPS household surveys, which we can then match to our estimates from the decennial census. We use a common breakdown of race/ethnicity into non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and Hispanics and correct for higher incarceration among black men and the presence of recent immigrants among Hispanics. We also present separate estimates of high school completion by regular diploma and by GED. This yields an apples-to-apples comparison of the graduation rates (regular diploma or all completions, including GEDs) from various data sources, corrected for the biases that we have documented above.
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Mishel, Lawrence and Joydeep Roy. "Comparing Alternative Measures of High School Completion" In: Rethinking High School Graduation Rates and Trends. Mishel, Lawrence and Joydeep Roy, ed. Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, April 2006.