Trends Among High School Seniors, 1972-2004 (NCES 2008-320)

Between 1972 and 2004, five cohorts of U. S. high school seniors were studied through the use of questionnaires and transcript data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics at the U.S. Department of Education. This analysis examines overall trends, and trends within subgroups of sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES).