Table 7.Percentage of CTE graduates whose 2012 occupation is in the same field as their high school area of CTE concentration (2012)

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Table 7. Percentage of CTE graduates whose 2012 occupation is in the same field as their high school area of CTE concentration (2012)Percentage of CTE graduates whose 2012 occupation is in the same field as their high school area of CTE concentration (2012)

Characteristics	Occupation in same field¹		Occupation in another field
	Occupation in 2012
Total	22.1		77.9

Area of CTE concentration while in high school
Agriculture and natural resources	3.3	!	96.7
Architecture and Construction	17.9	!	82.1
Business	37.4		62.6
Communications and design	8.6	!	91.4
Computer and information sciences	25.5		74.5
Consumer and culinary services	30.8		69.2
Engineering technologies	9.0	!	91.0
Health Sciences	37.0		63.0
Manufacturing	11.9		88.1
Marketing	7.3	!	92.7
Public Services	‡		‡
Repair and transportation	33.6		66.4
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error represents more than 30 percent of the estimate.
‡ Reporting standards are not met; the standard error represents more than 50 percent of the estimate.
¹ Occupation is the most recent occupation reported by the sample member.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), Third Follow-up Restricted-use File.

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