Table B-5. Demographic characteristics, by disability category
Characteristics | All disabili-ties | Learning disability | Speech/ language impair- ment |
Mental retar- dation |
Emo- tional distur- bance |
Hearing impair- ment |
Visual impair- ment |
Ortho- pedic impair- ment |
Other health impair- ment |
Autism | Trau- matic brain injury |
Multiple disabili- ties |
Deaf- blind- ness |
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Percent / standard error | |||||||||||||
Overall | 100.0 | 62.7 | 4.0 | 11.6 | 11.5 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 4.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 0.1 |
(2.73) | (1.10) | (1.81) | (1.80) | (0.62) | (0.38) | (0.59) | (1.18) | (0.45) | (0.30) | (0.74) | (0.21) | ||
Age | |||||||||||||
16 | 30.2 | 29.2 | 43.5 | 30.9 | 30.2 | 31.0 | 25.0 | 28.2 | 33.8 | 29.6 | 20.2 | 22.6 | 36.8 |
(2.59) | (3.87) | (4.38) | (5.35) | (4.23) | (5.63) | (5.45) | (5.20) | (4.43) | (6.57) | (7.21) | (6.17) | (8.71) | |
17 | 24.7 | 25.8 | 25.5 | 21.4 | 24.6 | 19.2 | 27.4 | 25.4 | 16.3 | 30.6 | 26.3 | 26.8 | 24.5 |
(2.43) | (3.72) | (3.85) | (4.75) | (3.96) | (4.80) | (5.62) | (5.03) | (3.46) | (6.64) | (7.91) | (6.53) | (7.76) | |
18 | 26.1 | 27.2 | 19.1 | 23.0 | 22.0 | 28.0 | 22.7 | 28.3 | 32.3 | 19.1 | 39.2 | 32.9 | 21.2 |
(2.47) | (3.78) | (3.47) | (4.87) | (3.81) | (5.47) | (5.27) | (5.20) | (4.38) | (5.66) | (8.77) | (6.93) | (7.38) | |
19-20 | 19.1 | 17.8 | 11.9 | 24.7 | 23.2 | 21.8 | 24.8 | 18.2 | 17.7 | 20.7 | 14.4 | 17.8 | 17.5 |
(2.22) | (3.25) | (2.86) | (5.00) | (3.89) | (5.03) | (5.44) | (4.46) | (3.57) | (5.84) | (6.31) | (5.63) | (6.85) | |
Gender | |||||||||||||
Male | 63.4 | 63.6 | 56.1 | 52.7 | 74.8 | 47.7 | 49.2 | 50.7 | 72.1 | 89.4 | 67.6 | 58.6 | 64.1 |
(2.72) | (4.09) | (4.38) | (5.78) | (4.00) | (6.08) | (6.29) | (5.78) | (4.20) | (4.43) | (8.41) | (7.26) | (8.66) | |
Female | 36.6 | 36.5 | 43.9 | 47.3 | 25.2 | 52.3 | 50.9 | 49.3 | 27.9 | 10.6 | 32.4 | 41.4 | 35.9 |
(2.72) | (4.09) | (4.38) | (5.78) | (4.00) | (6.08) | (6.29) | (5.78) | (4.20) | (4.43) | (8.41) | (7.26) | (8.66) | |
Ethnicity | |||||||||||||
White | 61.5 | 61.5 | 67.7 | 51.4 | 61.6 | 60.1 | 62.6 | 68.3 | 77.1 | 67.0 | 69.2 | 67.8 | 68.7 |
(2.74) | (4.14) | (4.13) | (5.79) | (4.48) | (5.96) | (6.09) | (5.38) | (3.94) | (6.77) | (8.30) | (6.89) | (8.37) | |
African American | 21.6 | 19.0 | 17.1 | 37.7 | 27.0 | 17.0 | 18.3 | 14.9 | 11.1 | 20.4 | 16.8 | 17.2 | 8.3 |
(2.32) | (3.34) | (3.33) | (5.61) | (4.09) | (4.57) | (4.87) | (4.11) | (2.95) | (5.80) | (6.72) | (5.56) | (4.98) | |
Hispanic | 13.9 | 16.1 | 12.0 | 9.5 | 9.2 | 17.7 | 14.4 | 14.5 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 11.4 | 11.6 | 23.0 |
(1.95) | (3.12) | (2.87) | (3.39) | (2.67) | (4.65) | (4.42) | (4.08) | (2.65) | (4.08) | (5.70) | (4.72) | (7.60) | |
Household income | |||||||||||||
$25,000 or less | 36.2 | 36.1 | 26.7 | 49.3 | 38.9 | 20.3 | 31.1 | 28.6 | 19.5 | 29.0 | 25.8 | 30.0 | 30.3 |
(2.86) | (4.28) | (4.06) | (6.28) | (4.64) | (5.24) | (6.13) | (5.40) | (3.80) | (7.04) | (8.12) | (6.93) | (8.77) | |
$25,001 - $50,000 | 28.4 | 27.8 | 30.2 | 26.9 | 30.0 | 31.0 | 28.1 | 26.5 | 34.9 | 26.4 | 37.8 | 23.4 | 27.9 |
(2.68) | (3.99) | (4.21) | (5.57) | (4.36) | (6.03) | (5.96) | (5.28) | (4.58) | (6.83) | (9.00) | (6.40) | (8.55) | |
More than $50,000 | 35.5 | 36.1 | 43.1 | 23.8 | 31.1 | 48.7 | 40.8 | 45.0 | 45.6 | 44.6 | 36.5 | 46.6 | 41.8 |
(2.85) | (4.28) | (4.54) | (5.35) | (4.40) | (6.52) | (6.51) | (5.95) | (4.78) | (7.71) | (8.94) | (7.54) | (9.41) | |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 2 youth telephone interview/mail survey, 2003. |