Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

Findings: Adult

Students at each socioeconomic status (SES) level most often reported family members and myself as their main influence for thinking about both further education and careers. However, high-SES students reported more often than low-SES students that they were their own main influence, while low-SES students reported more often than high-SES students that teachers or counselors were their main influence.

Figure 4. Percentage distribution of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders as of spring 2012, according to student reports of who most influenced their thinking about education after high school, by socioeconomic status (SES): 2012

Figure 4. 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; Counselor includes high school counselor and counselor hired by your family to help you prepare for college admission. Standard errors for estimates can be found at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/H167.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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