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Title: Measuring High School Graduation Rates at the State Level: What Difference Does Methodology Make?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Recent evidence makes clear that states public high school graduation ratesare well measured using information from the Common Core of Data(CCD). This article investigates the substantive consequences for the resultsof empirical analyses of using different CCD-based measures of states publichigh school graduation rates. The authors show that substantive conclusionsabout the levels, correlates, and predictors of states public highschool graduation rates are dependent on how those rates are measuredusing the CCD data. Warrens (2005) estimated completion rate is the mostconceptually and technically sound CCD-based measure, and that measureis improved in this study. The public high school graduation rate for theclass of 2004 was about 76 percent, although that rate varied considerablyby race/ethnicity and across states.

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Authors: Warren, John R.; Halpern-Manners, Andrew

Periodical (Full): Sociological Methods & Research

Issue: 1

Volume: 38

Pages: 3-37

Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Methodology and Data Collection

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