Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Findings: Adult

Family members more often were reported as students' main influence for thinking about postsecondary education than for their thinking about careers, while students reported relying on themselves more when thinking about careers than when thinking about postsecondary education.

Percentage of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders as of spring 2012 who reported family members or myself as their most influential source of information for education after high school and for careers: 2012

Figure 3. Percentage 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. Standard errors for estimates can be found at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H167.asp and https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H168.asp.
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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