Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Findings: Adult

Family members and myself are most often reported as the main influence for students' thinking about careers, with school staff less frequently reported as the main influence.

Figure 2. Percentage distribution of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders as of spring 2012, by student reports on who most influenced their thinking about careers: 2012

Figure 2. Percentage distribution of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders as of spring 2012

NOTE: Family members includes response categories for your parents and another family member; Myself includes yourself and no one in particular. For who influenced students’ thinking about careers, the only response option for Counselor was high school counselor. Standard errors for estimates can be found at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H168.asp. 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 Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), First Follow-Up Restricted-Use Data File.

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