| Table SH28. Standard errors for the percentage of public high school graduates who earned credits in each career/technical education (CTE) area, by number of CTE credits earned: 2005 |
| Non-occupational CTE, total | 1.66 | 0.89 | 0.73 |
| Family and consumer sciences education | 1.88 | 1.44 | 1.14 |
| General labor market preparation, total | 1.67 | 1.24 | 1.11 |
| Basic keyboarding/typewriting | 1.35 | 1.21 | 1.55 |
| Career preparation | 1.82 | 1.61 | 1.50 |
| Industrial arts | 0.89 | 0.47 | 0.75 |
| Introduction to technology | 0.98 | 1.01 | 1.16 |
| Other general labor market preparation | 0.16 | 0.29 | 0.48 |
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| Occupational education, total | 1.48 | 0.48 | 0.17 |
| Agriculture and natural resources | 0.25 | 0.49 | 0.93 |
| Business | 1.46 | 1.23 | 1.48 |
| Business finance | 0.28 | 0.43 | 0.76 |
| Business management | 0.77 | 0.80 | 1.16 |
| Business support | 1.40 | 1.28 | 1.50 |
| Communications and design | 1.02 | 1.06 | 1.01 |
| Computer and information sciences | 0.99 | 1.12 | 1.16 |
| Construction and architecture | 0.20 | 0.31 | 0.57 |
| Architecture | 0.15 | 0.21 | 0.35 |
| Construction | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.51 |
| Consumer and culinary services | 0.57 | 0.90 | 1.03 |
| Consumer services | 0.44 | 0.62 | 0.74 |
| Culinary arts | 0.41 | 0.86 | 1.01 |
| Engineering technologies | 0.36 | 0.60 | 0.85 |
| Health sciences | 0.84 | 0.76 | 0.79 |
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 0.70 | 0.97 | 1.14 |
| Manufacturing | 0.69 | 0.91 | 1.15 |
| Repair and transportation | 0.34 | 0.47 | 0.69 |
| Mechanics and repair | 0.34 | 0.46 | 0.68 |
| Transportation | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.39 |
| Marketing | 0.36 | 0.63 | 0.77 |
| Public services | 0.63 | 0.72 | 0.83 |
| Education and library science | 0.24 | 0.38 | 0.51 |
| Education | 0.21 | 0.34 | 0.42 |
| Library science | 0.12 | 0.18 | 0.34 |
| Protective/legal services and public administration | 0.53 | 0.59 | 0.64 |
| Protective services | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.65 |
| Public administration and legal services | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.10 |
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SOURCE: U .S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2005.
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