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| Table H84. Percentage of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators, by race/ethnicity, sex, and occupational area of concentration: 2005 | ||||||||||||||
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| Occupational area of concentration | 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 38.8 | 40.2 | 41.3 | 33.5 | 27.0 | 35.0 | 44.5 | 33.5 | ||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 4.7 | 5.9 | 1.9 | 2.5 | 0.8 | ! | 6.8 | 6.5 | 3.0 | |||||
| Business | 8.5 | 8.1 | 12.8 | 6.9 | 6.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 9.0 | ||||||
| Communications and design | 5.4 | 6.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 5.9 | ||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 5.7 | 4.2 | ! | 5.9 | 1.6 | |||||
| Construction and architecture | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 1.7 | ! | 4.0 | 0.4 | |||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 4.4 | 4.0 | 6.4 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 1.8 | 6.8 | ||||||
| Engineering technologies | 2.4 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.9 | # | 4.3 | 0.6 | ||||||
| Health sciences | 3.2 | 2.8 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 5.1 | ||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 7.5 | 8.5 | 4.7 | 6.6 | 3.9 | 6.6 | 13.8 | 1.6 | ||||||
| Marketing | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | ! | 1.8 | ! | 2.5 | 2.8 | ||||
| Public services | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | ! | 1.7 | 0.7 | ! | 1.0 | ! | 0.8 | 1.5 | |||
| Percent who were 3-credit occupational concentrators3 | ||||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 21.3 | 22.3 | 22.2 | 18.2 | 11.7 | 20.1 | 25.3 | 17.4 | ||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 2.9 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 0.3 | ! | 5.3 | ! | 4.3 | 1.7 | ||||
| Business | 3.1 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.5 | ||||||
| Communications and design | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | ! | 3.0 | 1.9 | 2.2 | |||||
| Computer and information sciences | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 0.9 | ! | 2.5 | 0.4 | |||||
| Construction and architecture | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ! | 0.3 | ! | 2.3 | 0.2 | ||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 2.2 | 1.9 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 0.5 | ! | 2.0 | ! | 0.8 | 3.5 | ||||
| Engineering technologies | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ! | # | 1.8 | 0.3 | |||||
| Health sciences | 2.1 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | ! | 0.6 | 3.6 | |||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 4.5 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 3.9 | ! | 8.5 | 0.8 | |||||
| Marketing | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.2 | ! | 0.8 | ! | 1.3 | 1.5 | ||||
| Public services | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | ! | 1.0 | ! | 0.5 | ! | 0.5 | ! | 0.5 | 0.7 | ||
| # Rounds to zero. | ||||||||||||||
| ! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate.
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 11 occupational areas listed in this table. 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 this table. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among White public high school graduates from the class of 2005, 5.9 percent were 2-credit occupational concentrators in agriculture and natural resources. 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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