**This program was written by Gia Elise Barboza at the Julian Samora Research Institute for
**the purpose of selecting data from the March Current Population Survey File. This program
**selects the numbers the number of "status dropouts" by state or region. You must change the following line to the location where the data is located
** (i.e. the  SAV file).

GET FILE = 'C:\DATA\OCT 1999 FILES\cpsoct99.SAV'.

**We recode the following variables to give us hispanic and non-hispanic groups.
IF (a_reorgn<=7) hispanic=0.
IF (a_reorgn > 7 & a_race=1) hispanic=1.

VARIABLE LABELS hispanic 'HISPANIC ORIGIN RECODED'.

VALUE LABELS hispanic 
0 'hispanic'
1 'non-hispanic white'.

**This is a recoded variable that is not included in the raw text file. The weight variable PWSSWGT has four implied decimal points. 
**The variable finwght reflects this fact. 
WEIGHT BY finwght.

** To select states use (gestcen=21 | gestcen=59 | gestcen=74 | gestcen=93 | gestcen=33) 
SELECT IF peeduca < 39 & prpertyp = 2 & peschenr = 2 & prorigin <= 7.

**If using states replace gereg with gestcen
CROSSTABS
  /TABLES=prorigin  BY gereg
  /FORMAT= AVALUE TABLES
  /CELLS= COUNT TOTAL .