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Table 71. Percent 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
                          |            |_________________________||                                  |           |_______________________
Teacher                   |       Total|        Non-|      Voca- ||Teacher                           |      Total|       Non-|      Voca-
characteristic            |            |  vocational|      tional||characteristic                    |           | vocational|     tional
                          |            |            |            ||                                  |           |           |
__________________________|____________|____________|____________||__________________________________|___________|___________|___________
1                         |          2 |          3 |          4 ||1                                 |         2 |         3 |         4
__________________________|____________|____________|____________||__________________________________|___________|___________|___________
     Total ...............|100.0 (0.00)|100.0 (0.00)|100.0 (0.00)||                                  |           |           |
                          |____________|____________|____________||                                  |           |           |
Sex                       |            |            |            ||Undergraduate field of study\1\   |           |           |
  Male ...................| 45.2 (0.39)| 43.6 (0.39)| 56.9 (1.08)||  Business and management ........| 2.5 (0.18)| 1.5 (0.13)|11.2 (0.84)
  Female .................| 54.8 (0.39)| 56.4 (0.39)| 43.1 (1.08)||  Education ......................|53.5 (0.35)|51.7 (0.37)|68.0 (1.10)
                          |            |            |            ||    Academic area ................|33.1 (0.33)|36.1 (0.35)| 8.1 (0.06)
Race/ethnicity            |            |            |            ||      English education ..........| 5.6 (0.12)| 6.1 (0.14)| 0.7 (0.18)
  White, non-Hispanic ....| 86.1 (0.33)| 86.2 (0.35)| 85.3 (0.80)||      Music education ............| 2.3 (0.11)| 2.6 (0.12)| 0.1 (0.05)
  Black, non-Hispanic ....|  6.5 (0.24)|  6.3 (0.25)|  7.8 (0.57)||      Physical education .........| 8.9 (0.19)| 9.6 (0.22)| 2.9 (0.40)
  Hispanic ...............|  5.1 (0.24)|  5.2 (0.23)|  4.6 (0.57)||      Other academic area ........|16.4 (0.30)|19.2 (0.31)| 4.3 (0.05)
  Asian/Pacific Islander .|  1.3 (0.07)|  1.4 (0.08)|  0.8 (0.14)||    General ......................| 8.1 (0.19)| 8.6 (0.20)| 4.1 (0.49)
  American Indian or      |            |            |            ||    Special education ............| 4.4 (0.13)| 4.8 (0.15)| 1.1 (0.20)
     Alaska Native .......|  1.0 (0.07)|  1.0 (0.07)|  1.5 (0.24)||    Vocational education .........| 7.3 (0.20)| 1.6 (0.10)|53.9 (1.20)
                          |            |            |            ||    Other education ..............| 0.5   (#) | 0.5   (#) | 0.8 (0.16)
Age                       |            |            |            ||  English ........................| 7.5 (0.20)| 8.3 (0.21)| 1.5 (0.30)
  Under 30 years .........| 16.0 (0.28)| 17.1 (0.32)|  8.4 (0.60)||  Foreign language ...............| 3.9 (0.14)| 4.3 (0.15)| 0.1 (0.05)
  30 to 39 years .........| 21.6 (0.32)| 22.1 (0.36)| 17.7 (0.87)||  Mathematics ....................| 5.1 (0.14)| 5.7 (0.16)| 0.2 (0.07)
  40 to 49 years .........| 30.6 (0.32)| 30.0 (0.35)| 35.3 (1.14)||  Sciences .......................| 8.1 (0.17)| 9.0 (0.19)| 0.7 (0.14)
  50 years and over ......| 31.7 (0.38)| 30.8 (0.39)| 38.6 (1.11)||  Social sciences and             |           |           |
                          |            |            |            ||     history .....................| 9.5 (0.20)|10.2 (0.22)| 3.4 (0.35)
Highest college degree    |            |            |            ||  Visual and performing arts .....| 4.2 (0.16)| 4.5 (0.17)| 1.7 (0.29)
  Less than a             |            |            |            ||  Other ..........................| 5.7 (0.19)| 4.8 (0.18)|13.0 (0.80)
     bachelor's degree ...|  1.7 (0.09)|  0.5 (0.05)| 10.6 (0.67)||                                  |           |           |
  Bachelor's degree ......| 48.4 (0.42)| 48.9 (0.42)| 44.6 (1.11)||Age at which first began to       |           |           |
  Master's degree ........| 45.4 (0.40)| 46.0 (0.42)| 41.0 (1.07)||   teach full-time or part-time   |           |           |
  Education               |            |            |            ||  25 or under ....................|62.2 (0.37)|63.6 (0.37)|51.5 (1.07)
     specialist\2\ .......|  3.2 (0.13)|  3.2 (0.13)|  3.2 (0.42)||  26 to 35 .......................|25.8 (0.34)|25.3 (0.34)|29.7 (0.97)
  Doctorate or first      |            |            |            ||  36 to 45 .......................| 9.3 (0.23)| 8.5 (0.23)|15.1 (0.75)
     professional ........|  1.3 (0.09)|  1.4 (0.10)|  0.6 (0.14)||  46 to 55 .......................| 2.5 (0.12)| 2.4 (0.12)| 3.3 (0.37)
                          |            |            |            ||  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," and "Charter Teacher Questionnaire," 1999-2000. (This table was prepared July 2002.)

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