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Findings: Secondary/High School
Graduates who earned 3.00 or more CTE credits had a lower unemployment rate than their peers who earned fewer CTE credits.
| Figure 1. Among 2013 public high school graduates currently not enrolled in a postsecondary credential program, labor force participation rate and unemployment rate, by number of career and technical education (CTE) credits earned in high school: 2016 |
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1 The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the HSLS:09 analysis population
that is (1) working or (2) not working but actively looking for work.
2 The unemployment rate is the percentage of the HSLS:09 labor force that is not working but actively looking for work.
NOTE: Public high school graduates are defined as students who graduated from a public
high school with an honors or standard diploma by August 31 of their scheduled graduation
year (2013). CTE comprises coursetaking in agriculture and natural resources; business,
finance, and marketing; communications and communication technologies; computer and
information sciences; construction; consumer services; engineering, design, and
production; health care; mechanical repair and operation; and public services. Estimates
and standard errors are available at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/h247.asp.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center
for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:2009), Base-year,
2013 Update, Second Follow-up, and High School Transcript File.
