100.0


98.2


69.2


29.9


4.6


.4



















Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen Year Old Employed Boys

Ages and Grades

Correlation between last grade completed amd age leaving school
TABLE Xo. 8-G — CITIES OVER 25,000
American and Foreign eomiined



Last Grade


Ages


Total


Percent

of

total


Cumu-
lative
percent


Cumu-
lative
percent


Completed


—14


14


15


16


.17


18


4th or under

5th


69
38

81

93

148


133
125
681
1,151
1,355
332


126
211
860
1,197
1,739
693
268


147
189
557
673
1,158
691
532
145


18
14

28
52
148
152
200
144
128


5

3

2

4

24

22

39

51

59


498

580

2,209

3,170

4,572

1,890

1,039

340

187


3.4

4.0

15.2

21.8

31.4

13.0

7.2

2.7

1.3


3.4

7.4
22.6
44.4
75.8
88.8
96.0
98.7
100.0


100.0
96.6


6th


92.6


7th


77.4


8th


55.6


IstH. S


24.2


2nd




11.2


3rd






4.0


4th








1.3














Total


429


3,777


5,094


4,092


884


209


14,485


100.0












Percent of total ....
3.0


26.1


35.1


28.3


6.1


1.4


100.0














Cumulative percent.
3.0


29.1


64.2


92.5


98.6


100.0


















Cumulative percent.
