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Table 70. Percentage of vocational and nonvocational public school teachers of grades 9 to 12, by selected demographic and educational characteristics: 1999-2000
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                          |            |        Teacher type     ||                                  |           |       Teacher type
                          |            |_________________________||                                  |           |_______________________
                          |            |        Non-|            ||                                  |           |       Non-|
Teacher characteristic    |       Total|  vocational|  Vocational||            Teacher characteristic|      Total| vocational|Vocational
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1                         |           2|           3|           4||1                                 |          2|          3|          4
__________________________|____________|____________|____________||__________________________________|___________|___________|___________
     Total ...............|100.0 (0.00)|100.0 (0.00)|100.0 (0.00)||                                  |           |           |
                          |____________|____________|____________||Undergraduate field of study\1\   |           |           |
Sex                       |            |            |            ||  Business and management ........| 2.5 (0.18)| 1.5 (0.13)|11.2 (0.84)
  Male ...................| 45.2 (0.39)| 43.6 (0.39)| 56.9 (1.08)||  Education ......................|53.5 (0.35)|51.7 (0.37)|68.0 (1.10)
  Female .................| 54.8 (0.39)| 56.4 (0.39)| 43.1 (1.08)||    Academic area ................|33.1 (0.33)|36.1 (0.35)| 8.1 (0.06)
                          |            |            |            ||      English education ..........| 5.6 (0.12)| 6.1 (0.14)| 0.7 (0.18)
Race/ethnicity            |            |            |            ||      Music education ............| 2.3 (0.11)| 2.6 (0.12)| 0.1 (0.05)
  White, non-Hispanic ....| 86.1 (0.33)| 86.2 (0.35)| 85.3 (0.80)||      Physical education .........| 8.9 (0.19)| 9.6 (0.22)| 2.9 (0.40)
  Black, non-Hispanic ....|  6.5 (0.24)|  6.3 (0.25)|  7.8 (0.57)||      Other academic area ........|16.4 (0.30)|19.2 (0.31)| 4.3 (0.05)
  Hispanic ...............|  5.1 (0.24)|  5.2 (0.23)|  4.6 (0.57)||    General ......................| 8.1 (0.19)| 8.6 (0.20)| 4.1 (0.49)
  Asian/Pacific Islander .|  1.3 (0.07)|  1.4 (0.08)|  0.8 (0.14)||    Special education ............| 4.4 (0.13)| 4.8 (0.15)| 1.1 (0.20)
  American Indian or      |            |            |            ||    Vocational education .........| 7.3 (0.20)| 1.6 (0.10)|53.9 (1.20)
     Alaska Native .......|  1.0 (0.07)|  1.0 (0.07)|  1.5 (0.24)||    Other education ..............| 0.5   (#) | 0.5   (#) | 0.8 (0.16)
                          |            |            |            ||  English ........................| 7.5 (0.20)| 8.3 (0.21)| 1.5 (0.30)
Age                       |            |            |            ||  Foreign language ...............| 3.9 (0.14)| 4.3 (0.15)| 0.1 (0.05)
  Under 30 years .........| 16.0 (0.28)| 17.1 (0.32)|  8.4 (0.60)||  Mathematics ....................| 5.1 (0.14)| 5.7 (0.16)| 0.2 (0.07)
  30 to 39 years .........| 21.6 (0.32)| 22.1 (0.36)| 17.7 (0.87)||  Sciences .......................| 8.1 (0.17)| 9.0 (0.19)| 0.7 (0.14)
  40 to 49 years .........| 30.6 (0.32)| 30.0 (0.35)| 35.3 (1.14)||  Social sciences and             |           |           |
  50 years and over ......| 31.7 (0.38)| 30.8 (0.39)| 38.6 (1.11)||     history .....................| 9.5 (0.20)|10.2 (0.22)| 3.4 (0.35)
                          |            |            |            ||  Visual and performing arts .....| 4.2 (0.16)| 4.5 (0.17)| 1.7 (0.29)
Highest college degree    |            |            |            ||  Other ..........................| 5.7 (0.19)| 4.8 (0.18)|13.0 (0.80)
  Less than a             |            |            |            ||                                  |           |           |
     bachelor's degree ...|  1.7 (0.09)|  0.5 (0.05)| 10.6 (0.67)||Age at which first began to       |           |           |
  Bachelor's degree ......| 48.4 (0.42)| 48.9 (0.42)| 44.6 (1.11)||   teach full-time or part-time   |           |           |
  Master's degree ........| 45.4 (0.40)| 46.0 (0.42)| 41.0 (1.07)||  25 or under ....................|62.2 (0.37)|63.6 (0.37)|51.5 (1.07)
  Education               |            |            |            ||  26 to 35 .......................|25.8 (0.34)|25.3 (0.34)|29.7 (0.97)
     specialist\2\ .......|  3.2 (0.13)|  3.2 (0.13)|  3.2 (0.42)||  36 to 45 .......................| 9.3 (0.23)| 8.5 (0.23)|15.1 (0.75)
  Doctorate or first      |            |            |            ||  46 to 55 .......................| 2.5 (0.12)| 2.4 (0.12)| 3.3 (0.37)
     professional ........|  1.3 (0.09)|  1.4 (0.10)|  0.6 (0.14)||  56 or over .....................| 0.2   (#) | 0.2   (#) | 0.4 (0.12)
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#Rounds to zero.
\1\Data are for bachelor's degrees and major fields of study only.
\2\Education specialist degrees or certificates are generally awarded for one year's work beyond the master's level.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. Standard errors appear in parentheses.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public Teacher Questionnaire," 1999-2000; and "Charter Teacher Questionnaire," 1999-2000. (This table was prepared July 2002.)


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