Table 14. Percentage of adults enrolled in formal work-related courses or training who reported specific numbers of classroom instructional hours in the past 12 months, by selected adult characteristics: 2004-05
Characteristic	Number of adults (thousands)	Total instructional hours across courses or training
		10 hours or fewer	11 - 25 hours	26 - 50 hours	51 hours or more
Total	57,004	33	24	20	22
Age
16 to 24 years	5,332	43	19	16	22
25 to 34 years	12,283	32	25	23	21
35 to 44 years	14,472	32	25	18	25
45 to 54 years	15,289	34	24	20	22
55 to 64 years	7,851	29	28	22	21
65 years or older	1,778	35	24	20	21
Sex
Male	24,884	33	22	21	24
Female	32,120	34	26	20	21
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	42,604	32	25	21	23
Black, non-Hispanic	6,339	44	18	17	20
Hispanic	4,385	36	24	19	21
Asian or Pacific Islander,   non-Hispanic	1,719	28	32	22	18
Other race, non-Hispanic	1,957	32	21	21	26
Highest education level completed
Less than a high school   diploma/equivalent	1,309	37	28	17	19
High school diploma/   equivalent	10,643	41	21	15	22
Some college/vocational/   associate’s degree	18,365	39	24	17	20
Bachelor’s degree	16,322	28	26	24	23
Graduate or professional   or degree	10,366	23	26	25	26
Household income
$20,000 or less	3,683	43	23	13	20
$20,001 to $35,000	6,294	37	23	19	21
$35,001 to $50,000	7,839	34	21	23	22
$50,001 to $75,000	15,537	38	25	17	20
$75,001 or more	23,651	28	26	22	24
Employment status
Employed full-time	43,083	31	24	22	23
Employed part-time	8,684	44	26	13	17
Unemployed and looking   for work	1,366	29	21	21	29
Not in the labor force	3,871	33	30	17	20
Occupation
Professional/managerial	27,401	29	26	24	22
Sales/service/clerical	20,234	37	25	16	21
Trade and labor	7,028	37	19	18	27
NOTE: Work-related courses or training are defined as any formal courses or training taken in the 12 months prior to the interview that had an instructor present and were related to job or career, whether or not the respondent had a job when he or she took them. Information was collected on up to four work-related courses or training taken in the 12 months prior to the interview. If an adult took more than four courses or training, four were sampled for data collection. Time spent in work-related courses or training was weighted to account for the sub-sampling of courses/training. Details may not sum to totals because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Adult Education Survey of the 2005 National Household Education Surveys Program.