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Table 384. Percentage of employed 1988 8th-graders satisfied with various aspects of their job, by educational attainment: 2000
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                             |                           Percentage who were satisfied with
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                             |    Fringe|   Further|Use of past|  Promotion|       Job|      Work|          |       Job
Educational attainment       |  benefits|  training|   training|opportunity|  security|importance|       Pay|   overall
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1                            |         2|         3|          4|          5|         6|         7|         8|         9
_____________________________|__________|__________|___________|___________|__________|__________|__________|__________
Method of high school comp-  |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |
   letion by 2000            |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |
  High school diploma .......|79.2(0.84)|79.0(0.89)|80.3 (1.24)|71.5 (1.19)|89.9(0.59)|83.7(0.78)|73.0(0.95)|86.8(0.69)
  GED certificate ...........|69.1(4.47)|74.4(4.22)|74.9 (4.46)|73.1 (4.35)|90.3(2.48)|80.4(4.26)|75.6(4.13)|83.7(4.01)
  No diploma or equivalent ..|48.2(6.61)|68.9(6.38)|72.5 (6.29)|62.5 (6.68)|72.8(6.21)|85.3(5.14)|65.0(6.90)|74.0(6.44)
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Postsecondary attainment     |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |
   by 2000                   |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |
  None ......................|69.4(2.80)|71.7(2.73)|77.1 (2.68)|69.1 (2.65)|85.6(2.18)|84.0(2.48)|74.5(2.45)|83.3(2.53)
  Less than bachelor's       |          |          |           |           |          |          |          |
     degree .................|74.7(1.62)|77.0(1.36)|76.0 (2.06)|68.1 (1.98)|89.3(0.93)|81.2(1.18)|71.3(1.65)|84.0(1.19)
  Bachelor's degree .........|83.0(1.15)|83.2(1.18)|84.7 (1.02)|75.8 (1.21)|90.2(0.99)|85.9(1.00)|73.0(1.30)|89.3(0.91)
  Master's or higher degree .|87.0(2.19)|89.3(1.91)|92.8 (1.32)|82.1 (2.31)|92.0(1.70)|93.1(1.38)|75.1(3.64)|94.5(1.18)
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NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Coming of age in the 1990's: The eighth-grade class of 1988 12 years later, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), "Fourth Follow-up, 2000." (This table was prepared April 2005.)


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