| Table H52. Percentage of public high school graduates earning any credits in communications and design who earned credits in each other occupational area and the average number of credits they earned in the other area: 2005 |
| Communications and design and any credits in: | | |
| Any other occupational area | 82.3 | 2.04 |
| Agriculture and natural resources | 9.9 | 1.74 |
| Business | 40.7 | 1.24 |
| Computer and information sciences | 21.3 | 1.16 |
| Construction and architecture | 5.7 | 1.34 |
| Consumer and culinary services | 22.8 | 1.15 |
| Engineering technologies | 12.6 | 1.12 |
| Health sciences | 8.2 | 1.39 |
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 23.1 | 1.44 |
| Marketing | 10.7 | 1.17 |
| Public services | 7.6 | 0.96 |
NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who earned any credits in communications and design, 9.9 percent also earned credits in agriculture and natural resources. Also, among graduates who earned any credits in communications and design, the average number of credits earned in agriculture and natural resources was 1.74. The total weighted count of public high school graduates in 2005 was 2.4 million.
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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