| Table H28. Percentage of public high school graduates who earned credits in each career/technical education (CTE) area, by number of CTE credits earned: 2005 |
| Family and consumer sciences education | 24.3 | | 42.5 | | 50.1 | |
| General labor market preparation, total | 55.8 | | 70.0 | | 78.9 | |
| Basic keyboarding/typewriting | 17.8 | | 26.5 | | 32.5 | |
| Career preparation | 38.7 | | 53.2 | | 62.4 | |
| Industrial arts | 1.9 | ! | 2.3 | | 6.4 | |
| Introduction to technology | 4.9 | | 8.2 | | 11.3 | |
| Other general labor market preparation | 0.3 | ! | 0.6 | ! | 1.7 | |
| | | | | | | |
| Occupational education, total | 65.5 | | 92.6 | | 98.3 | |
| Agriculture and natural resources | 1.7 | | 6.6 | | 19.7 | |
| Business | 21.6 | | 38.5 | | 51.1 | |
| Business finance | 2.2 | | 9.2 | | 14.7 | |
| Business management | 6.9 | | 15.4 | | 24.1 | |
| Business support | 13.5 | | 20.9 | | 28.4 | |
| Communications and design | 17.3 | | 31.7 | | 36.7 | |
| Computer and information sciences | 10.6 | | 19.6 | | 24.5 | |
| Construction and architecture | 1.2 | | 3.6 | | 11.5 | |
| Architecture | 0.7 | | 1.3 | | 3.3 | |
| Construction | 0.5 | | 2.4 | | 8.7 | |
| Consumer and culinary services | 7.6 | | 18.7 | | 27.4 | |
| Consumer services | 4.9 | | 11.3 | | 17.1 | |
| Culinary arts | 2.8 | | 8.6 | | 14.0 | |
| Engineering technologies | 4.1 | | 9.5 | | 17.4 | |
| Health sciences | 4.0 | | 8.2 | | 12.9 | |
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 7.1 | | 18.2 | | 32.5 | |
| Manufacturing | 5.2 | | 13.8 | | 23.9 | |
| Repair and transportation | 2.0 | | 5.6 | | 14.3 | |
| Mechanics and repair | 1.9 | | 5.3 | | 13.0 | |
| Transportation | 0.2 | | 0.4 | | 1.8 | |
| Marketing | 2.9 | | 7.6 | | 14.0 | |
| Public services | 3.3 | | 6.9 | | 8.9 | |
| Education and library science | 1.3 | | 3.2 | | 4.6 | |
| Education | 0.9 | | 2.1 | | 3.0 | |
| Library science | 0.4 | | 1.2 | | 1.7 | |
| Protective/legal services and public administration | 1.9 | | 3.8 | | 4.5 | |
| Protective services | 1.8 | | 3.6 | | 4.3 | |
| Public administration and legal services | 0.1 | ! | 0.2 | ! | 0.2 | ! |
! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate.
NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who earned 0.01-1.99 credits in CTE, 67.8 percent earned credits in non-occupational CTE and 65.5 percent earned credits in occupational education.
SOURCE: U .S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2005.
|
Return
(24 KB)
