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| Table H88. Number and percentage distribution of public high school graduates who were occupational concentrators or nonconcentrators, by race/ethnicity, sex, and occupational area of concentration: 2005 | |||||||||||||||
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| Occupational concentrator status | Number of graduates | Race/ethnicity1 | Sex | ||||||||||||
| White | Black | Hispanic | Asian/ | American | Male | Female | |||||||||
| Percentage distribution of 2-credit occupational concentrators2 | |||||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 939,000 | 70.4 | 14.5 | 10.6 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 55.7 | 44.3 | |||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 114,500 | 85.1 | 5.4 | 6.6 | 0.8 | ! | 2.1 | 67.1 | 32.9 | ||||||
| Business | 204,700 | 64.8 | 20.6 | 10.1 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 45.3 | 54.7 | |||||||
| Communications and design | 130,600 | 75.7 | 10.5 | 8.1 | 4.1 | 1.6 | 43.5 | 56.5 | |||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 89,600 | 69.2 | 13.0 | 9.2 | 6.9 | 1.6 | ! | 77.7 | 22.3 | ||||||
| Construction and architecture | 51,800 | 72.3 | 14.5 | 10.3 | 1.8 | 1.2 | ! | 90.9 | 9.1 | ||||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 105,400 | 62.5 | 20.0 | 14.2 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 20.0 | 80.0 | |||||||
| Engineering technologies | 59,000 | 79.4 | 9.1 | 8.1 | 3.5 | # | 86.5 | 13.5 | |||||||
| Health sciences | 77,600 | 60.4 | 22.8 | 12.9 | 2.8 | 1.1 | 18.2 | 81.8 | |||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 181,600 | 77.0 | 8.5 | 10.8 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 89.1 | 10.9 | |||||||
| Marketing | 64,000 | 69.3 | 16.0 | 10.3 | 3.5 | 1.0 | ! | 46.0 | 54.0 | ||||||
| Public services | 28,500 | 64.8 | 13.3 | 17.8 | 2.8 | ! | 1.3 | ! | 35.0 | 65.0 | |||||
| Nonconcentrator | 1,478,400 | 66.5 | 13.1 | 13.4 | 5.4 | 1.6 | 44.1 | 55.9 | |||||||
| Percentage distribution of 3-credit occupational concentrators3 | |||||||||||||||
| Any occupational concentration | 514,000 | 71.4 | 14.2 | 10.6 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 57.8 | 42.2 | |||||||
| Agriculture and natural resources | 71,300 | 87.4 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 0.5 | ! | 2.6 | 70.5 | 29.5 | ||||||
| Business | 74,400 | 59.6 | 22.7 | 11.8 | 4.0 | 1.9 | 42.1 | 57.9 | |||||||
| Communications and design | 49,600 | 79.1 | 9.1 | 6.0 | 3.5 | ! | 2.1 | 45.5 | 54.5 | ||||||
| Computer and information sciences | 34,600 | 73.4 | 12.0 | 8.3 | 5.4 | 0.9 | ! | 84.9 | 15.1 | ||||||
| Construction and architecture | 29,500 | 73.8 | 12.0 | 8.3 | 1.4 | ! | 0.4 | ! | 90.4 | 9.6 | |||||
| Consumer and culinary services | 53,100 | 60.1 | 21.6 | 15.9 | 1.1 | ! | 1.3 | ! | 18.5 | 81.5 | |||||
| Engineering technologies | 24,900 | 80.9 | 7.8 | 8.9 | 2.4 | ! | # | 85.5 | 14.5 | ||||||
| Health sciences | 51,600 | 60.8 | 24.6 | 11.8 | 2.0 | 0.8 | ! | 13.7 | 86.3 | ||||||
| Manufacturing, repair, and transportation | 109,600 | 77.5 | 8.5 | 10.7 | 2.1 | 1.2 | ! | 91.5 | 8.5 | ||||||
| Marketing | 33,800 | 67.1 | 14.4 | 13.9 | 3.8 | ! | 0.8 | ! | 46.6 | 53.4 | |||||
| Public services | 13,900 | 56.6 | 17.2 | 20.7 | 4.2 | ! | 1.3 | ! | 40.2 | 59.8 | |||||
| Nonconcentrator | 1,903,400 | 67.2 | 13.5 | 12.8 | 5.1 | 1.5 | 46.1 | 53.9 | |||||||
| # Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||||||
| ! 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. 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. Nonconcentrators are those public high school graduates who do not meet this definition. 3 3-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. Nonconcentrators are those public high school graduates who do not meet this definition. NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who were 2-credit occupational concentrators in agriculture and natural resources, 85.1 percent were White. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. 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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