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| Table H87. Percentage of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators, by size and locale of 12th-grade school, and occupational area of concentration: 2005 | ||||||||||||
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| Occupational area of concentration | All graduates | Size of 12th-grade school1 | Locale of 12th-grade school | |||||||||
| Small | Medium | Large | Urban | Suburban and town | Rural | |||||||
| Number of graduates | 2,417,400 | 254,700 | 1,381,400 | 533,200 | 607,600 | 1,142,700 | 667,100 | |||||
| Percent who were 2-credit occupational concentrators2 | ||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 38.8 | 49.5 | 39.4 | 33.8 | 33.9 | 35.6 | 48.9 | |||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 4.7 | 13.2 | 4.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 11.0 | |||||
| Business | 8.5 | 11.9 | 8.6 | 6.9 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 11.0 | |||||
| Communications and design | 5.4 | 4.4 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 6.1 | |||||
| Computer and information sciences | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 4.1 | |||||
| Construction and architecture | 2.1 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 3.7 | |||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.7 | |||||
| Engineering technologies | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 2.6 | |||||
| Health sciences | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 4.0 | |||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 7.5 | 11.1 | 8.3 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 6.9 | 10.4 | |||||
| Marketing | 2.6 | 0.7 | ! | 2.9 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 1.6 | ||||
| Public services | 1.2 | 2.4 | ! | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.4 | ! | 0.9 | 1.4 | |||
| Percent who were 3-credit occupational concentrators3 | ||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 21.3 | 28.1 | 22.2 | 16.9 | 18.8 | 18.6 | 28.1 | |||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 2.9 | 8.6 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 7.2 | |||||
| Business | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 3.3 | |||||
| Communications and design | 2.0 | 1.2 | ! | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.4 | ||||
| Computer and information sciences | 1.4 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.6 | |||||
| Construction and architecture | 1.2 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 2.2 | |||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 | |||||
| Engineering technologies | 1.0 | 0.9 | ! | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 | ||||
| Health sciences | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.8 | |||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 4.5 | 6.8 | 5.1 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 6.6 | |||||
| Marketing | 1.4 | 0.5 | ! | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 0.7 | ||||
| Public services | 0.6 | 1.4 | ! | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ! | 0.4 | 0.7 | ! | ||
| ! Interpret data with caution. Standard error is more than one-third of the estimate.
1Small schools have up to 499 students, medium schools have 500–1,999 students, and large schools have 2,000 or more students. 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 public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who attended a small school, 13.2 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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