Percentage of 1992 public high school graduates who earned a professional license between 1994 and 2000, by occupational credits earned in high school, occupational concentrator status, and area of concentration: 2000

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Table H46. Percentage of 1992 public high school graduates who earned a professional license between 1994 and 2000, by occupational credits earned in high school, occupational concentrator status, and area of concentration: 2000
Student characteristic	Earned a license between 1994 and 2000
All public high school graduates	29.1

Occupational credits
None	28.8
0.01–1.99 credits	31.9
2.00–3.99 credits	27.2
4.00 or more credits	28.1

Occupational concentrator status
Nonconcentrator	29.3

Occupational concentrator, total¹	28.3
Agriculture	34.9
Business	24.1
Child care and education	34.1
Food service and hospitality	‡
Health care	43.4
Marketing	34.5
Personal services	21.3!
Public and protective services	‡
Technology and communications	30.9
Trade and industry	29.1
! Interpret data with caution. Due to relatively large starndard errors, estimates are unstable. ‡ Reporting standards not met. Too few cases for a reliable estimate. ¹ Occupational concentrators earned 3.0 or more credits in at least one of the 10 broad occupational program areas listed in the table. Concentrators may appear in more than one row if they completed 3.0 or more credits in more than one program area. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), "Fourth Follow-up, 2000."

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