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| Table H80. Percentage of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators, by race/ethnicity, sex, and number of occupational credits earned: 2005 | ||||||||||
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| Number of occupational credits | 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 | ||
| Percent who were 2-credit occupational concentrators2 | ||||||||||
| All graduates | 38.8 | 40.2 | 41.3 | 33.5 | 27.0 | 35.0 | 44.5 | 33.5 | ||
| Graduates who earned any | ||||||||||
| occupational credits | 44.7 | 46.1 | 46.8 | 38.4 | 33.9 | 42.8 | 49.6 | 39.8 | ||
| Graduates who earned 2.0 or more | ||||||||||
| occupational credits | 68.6 | 69.6 | 70.7 | 63.4 | 61.0 | 61.5 | 70.8 | 66.1 | ||
| Percent who were 3-credit occupational concentrators3 | ||||||||||
| All graduates | 21.3 | 22.3 | 22.2 | 18.2 | 11.7 | 20.1 | 25.3 | 17.4 | ||
| Graduates who earned any | ||||||||||
| occupational credits | 24.5 | 25.6 | 25.1 | 20.9 | 14.7 | 24.6 | 28.2 | 20.7 | ||
| Graduates who earned 3.0 or more | ||||||||||
| occupational credits | 54.1 | 54.6 | 54.1 | 52.6 | 44.0 | 58.8 | 55.1 | 52.7 | ||
| 1Black 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.
2 2-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned 2.0 or more credits in any one of the following 11 occupational areas: agriculture and natural resources; business; communications and design; computer and information sciences; construction and architecture; consumer and culinary services; engineering technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, repair, and transportation; marketing; and public services. 33-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned 3.0 or more credits in any one of the 11 occupational areas listed in footnote 2. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among all White public high school graduates from the class of 2005, 40.2 percent were 2-credit occupational concentrations. Also, 46.1 percent of White graduates who earned any occupational credits were 2-credit occupational concentrators. 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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