2006 Employment Experience of Youths: Results from a Longitudinal Survey — 2006-02-24

At age 18, notable differences in the school enrollment status of men and women are apparent. Eighteen-year-old men were less likely to be enrolled in college than 18-year-old women and were more likely to either have dropped out of high school or still be enrolled in high school. Moreover, men who were enrolled in high school during the October when they were age 17 were more likely than their female counterparts to have dropped out by the follow- ing October. These findings are from the first seven annual rounds of the National Long- itudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which is sponsored by the Bureau of labor Stat- istics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The survey includes a nationally repre- sentative sample of about 9,000 young men and women who were born during the years 1980 to 1984.