1994 College Enrollment and Work Activity of High School Graduates — 1995-06-01

Sixty-two percent of the high school graduating class of 1994 were enrolled in colleges or universities in the fall, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This enrollment rate is about the same as in recent years, but considerably higher than a decade earlier (55 percent). This information is from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly nationwide survey of approximately 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 young people aged 16 to 24. Data for 1994 are not strictly comparable with data for 1993 and earlier years. This stems from two factors: 1) A major redesign of the CPS, introduced in January 1994, and 2) the introduction of 1990 census-based population controls, adjusted for the estimated undercount, which had a pronounced effect on population and labor force levels.