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                                     |         |   Teacher type
                                     |         |____________________
     Characteristics of teachers     |  Total  |   Non-   |  Voca-
                                     |         |  voca-   | tional
                                     |         |  tional  |
                                     |         |          |
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                  1                  |    2    |    3     |    4
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   Total ............................|   100.0 |    100.0 |   100.0
                                     |_________|__________|_________
Sex                                  |         |          |
  Male ..............................|    48.6 |     48.0 |    51.7
  Female ............................|    51.4 |     52.0 |    48.3
                                     |         |          |
Race/ethnicity                       |         |          |
  White .............................|    89.1 |     89.4 |    87.8
  Black .............................|     6.6 |      6.1 |     8.7
  Hispanic ..........................|     2.8 |      3.0 |     2.0
  Asian .............................|     0.8 |      0.8 |     0.7
  American Indian or Alaskan Native .|     0.7 |      0.7 |     0.9
                                     |         |          |
Age                                  |         |          |
  Under 30 years ....................|    11.0 |     11.5 |     8.4
  30 to 39 years ....................|    26.9 |     27.3 |    24.8
  40 to 49 years ....................|    41.1 |     41.4 |    39.6
  50 years and over .................|    21.0 |     19.7 |    27.2
                                     |         |          |
Highest college degree               |         |          |
  Less than a bachelor's degree......|     1.7 |      0.3 |     8.3
  Bachelor's degree .................|    45.4 |     45.3 |    45.5
  Master's degree ...................|    46.4 |     47.4 |    41.4
  Education specialist\1\ ...........|     5.3 |      5.5 |     4.5
  Doctorate or first professional ...|     1.3 |      1.5 |     0.3
                                     |         |          |
Major field of study                 |         |          |
  Mathematics and sciences ..........|    10.4 |     12.3 |     1.0
  Social sciences ...................|     8.7 |     10.0 |     1.9
  Letters and humanities ............|    12.4 |     14.6 |     1.5
  Education                          |         |          |
    General .........................|    45.3 |     52.2 |     9.5
    Special education ...............|     4.0 |      4.7 |     0.1
    Vocational education ............|    13.9 |      2.8 |    71.7
    Occupationally specific .........|     3.8 |      2.3 |    11.6
  Other .............................|     1.4 |      1.1 |     2.7
                                     |         |          |
Age at which first began to          |         |          |
  teach full-time or part-time       |         |          |
    25 or under .....................|    69.8 |     71.3 |    62.6
    26 to 35 ........................|    22.9 |     22.4 |    25.4
    36 to 45 ........................|     6.0 |      5.2 |     9.9
    46 to 55 ........................|     1.1 |      1.0 |     1.9
    Over 55 .........................|     0.1 |      0.1 |     0.3
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, "Schools and Staffing Survey, 1990-91." (This table was prepared July 1994.)