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Findings: Adult

Adults who completed a work experience program as part of postsecondary education, rather than outside of education, were less often paid during the work experience, but were more often in a work experience that prepared them for licensure or certification

Figure A11. Among adults whose last completed a work experience program was part of a postsecondary education program or was not part of a formal education program, percentage of adults whose work experience program had selected characteristics: 2016

Figure A11. Among adults whose last completed a work experience program was part of a postsecondary education program or was not part of a formal education program, percentage of adults whose work experience program had selected characteristics: 2016

NOTE: As defined in the survey, adults are ages 16 to 65 and not enrolled in high school, and a work experience program is an internship, co-op, practicum, clerkship, externship, residency, clinical experience, apprenticeship, or similar program. Tabular data for percentages and their standard errors are available in Table A10.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Adult Training and Education Survey (ATES) of the National Household Education Surveys (NHES) Program, 2016.


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