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

Figure 5. Percentage distribution of fall 2009 public school ninth-graders as of spring 2012, according to student reports of who most influenced their thinking about careers, by socioeconomic status (SES): 2012

NOTE: Family members includes response categories for 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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