Table 2
Percentage of Youth Ages 18 to 24 who reported registering to vote and percentage who reported voting in nonpresidential election years, 1974-2002
	1974	1978	1982	1986	1990	1994	1998	2002
Registered1
Total	41	41	42	42	40	42	39	39
Gender
Male	42	39	42	41	39	41	36	36
Female	41	42	42	43	40	44	42	42
Race/Ethnicity2
White	43	41	43	42	40	44	41	40
White non-Hispanic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	44
Black	34	37	42	46	40	42	38	40
Hispanic	23	20	24	22	19	20	22	21
Hispanic Citizens	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	34
Voted1
Total	24	24	25	22	20	20	17	17
Gender
Male	25	23	25	21	20	19	16	16
Female	23	24	26	23	21	22	18	19
Race/Ethnicity2
White	25	24	25	22	21	21	17	18
White non-Hispanic								20
Black	16	20	26	25	20	17	16	19
Hispanic	13	12	14	12	9	10	9	8
Hispanic Citizens	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13
1 Estimates include all young adults (including non-citizens) in the denominator.
2 Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.  Except where otherwise noted, estimates for whites and blacks include Hispanics of those races.
Note: Current Population Survey figures routinely overestimate voter registration and turnout when compared to official rates.
Source: Data for 2002: Child Trends original analyses of November 2002 Current Population Survey data; All other years from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Trends in the well-being of America's children and youth, 2002. Table SD 1.4.B