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| Table H76. Percentage of public high school graduates who earned any Career/technical education (CTE) credits during high school, by race/ethnicity, sex, and CTE area: 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| CTE area | All graduates | Race/ethnicity1 | Sex | |||||||||||||||
| White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/Pacific Islander | American Indian/Other | Male | Female | ||||||||||||
| Number of graduates | 2,417,400 | 1,645,100 | 329,500 | 298,500 | 109,000 | 35,300 | 1,175,400 | 1,242,000 | ||||||||||
| CTE, total | 96.6 | 96.5 | 97.8 | 97.3 | 92.4 | 94.8 | 97.4 | 95.8 | ||||||||||
| Non-occupational CTE, total | 79.8 | 79.4 | 83.2 | 81.1 | 71.4 | 83.0 | 78.9 | 80.8 | ||||||||||
| Family and consumer sciences education | 41.1 | 42.1 | 42.0 | 38.1 | 29.6 | 45.3 | 34.7 | 47.1 | ||||||||||
| General labor market preparation, total | 69.1 | 68.2 | 73.3 | 71.2 | 63.1 | 68.0 | 70.5 | 67.7 | ||||||||||
| Occupational education, total | 86.9 | 87.1 | 88.2 | 87.1 | 79.5 | 81.6 | 89.7 | 84.1 | ||||||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 11.5 | 13.2 | 6.9 | 9.5 | 4.8 | 14.9 | 14.6 | 8.6 | ||||||||||
| Business | 39.8 | 39.5 | 45.7 | 39.8 | 29.7 | 31.0 | 39.7 | 39.9 | ||||||||||
| Business finance | 10.1 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 6.3 | 7.6 | 9.7 | 9.6 | 10.5 | ||||||||||
| Business management | 17.3 | 18.3 | 18.6 | 12.0 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 18.3 | 16.3 | ||||||||||
| Business support | 22.2 | 20.3 | 29.0 | 28.9 | 14.4 | 16.3 | 21.3 | 23.2 | ||||||||||
| Communications and design | 30.2 | 32.0 | 24.9 | 27.7 | 26.3 | 27.6 | 28.6 | 31.6 | ||||||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 19.4 | 18.8 | 19.4 | 19.5 | 28.6 | 20.5 | 25.0 | 14.2 | ||||||||||
| Construction and architecture | 6.7 | 7.2 | 6.1 | 6.1 | 3.1 | 5.1 | 11.8 | 1.9 | ||||||||||
| Architecture | 2.1 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.7 | ! | 3.5 | 0.7 | |||||||||
| Construction | 4.9 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 1.6 | 4.4 | ! | 8.8 | 1.2 | |||||||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 20.0 | 19.4 | 24.7 | 20.9 | 13.2 | 19.2 | 12.1 | 27.5 | ||||||||||
| Consumer services | 12.4 | 11.9 | 16.2 | 13.2 | 7.4 | 11.9 | 4.9 | 19.6 | ||||||||||
| Culinary arts | 9.7 | 9.5 | 11.8 | 9.9 | 6.1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 11.2 | ||||||||||
| Engineering technologies | 11.8 | 13.1 | 8.6 | 9.4 | 11.4 | 4.2 | 19.3 | 4.7 | ||||||||||
| Health sciences | 9.3 | 8.9 | 12.5 | 9.5 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 12.6 | ||||||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 22.1 | 24.0 | 15.0 | 21.4 | 17.5 | 21.6 | 31.6 | 13.1 | ||||||||||
| Manufacturing | 16.4 | 18.4 | 9.7 | 13.8 | 12.6 | 17.0 | 21.5 | 11.6 | ||||||||||
| Repair and transportation | 8.8 | 9.2 | 6.5 | 9.5 | 6.6 | 10.9 | 15.8 | 2.1 | ||||||||||
| Repair | 8.1 | 8.4 | 5.7 | 8.9 | 6.1 | 10.4 | 14.5 | 2.0 | ||||||||||
| Transportation | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | ! | 1.1 | 0.5 | ! | 0.5 | ! | 1.8 | 0.2 | ! | ||||||
| Marketing | 9.4 | 9.7 | 10.3 | 7.7 | 8.9 | 6.7 | 9.4 | 9.5 | ||||||||||
| Public services | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.4 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 5.9 | 7.8 | ||||||||||
| Education and library science | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 6.0 | 2.2 | 4.5 | ||||||||||
| Education | 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 2.1 | ! | 1.3 | 3.1 | |||||||||
| Library science | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.4 | ! | 1.5 | 1.0 | ! | 3.9 | ! | 1.0 | 1.5 | |||||||
| Protective/legal services and | ||||||||||||||||||
| public administration | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 | ! | 2.9 | ! | 3.8 | 3.5 | ||||||||
| Protective services | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 3.0 | ! | 2.1 | ! | 3.7 | 3.3 | ||||||||
| Public administration and legal services | 0.2 | ! | 0.2 | ! | 0.1 | ! | 0.1 | ! | 0.6 | ! | 0.8 | ! | 0.1 | ! | 0.3 | ! | ||
| ! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate.
1 Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and American Indian/Other includes Alaska Native, graduates of more than one race, and graduates whose race is unknown. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that 96.5 percent of White public high school graduates from the class of 2005 earned credits in CTE. 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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