Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table A7. Percentage distribution of adults reporting the perceived usefulness of their most important work credential, last postsecondary certificate, and last work experience program, by usefulness measure: 2016

Usefulness measure	Most important work credential			Last postsecondary certificate	Last work experience program
Usefulness measure	Any	Certification	License	Last postsecondary certificate	Last work experience program
Getting a job
Not useful	7	14	5	24	12
Somewhat useful	12	26	8	27	24
Very useful	82	60	87	49	64
Keeping a job
Not useful	8	17	5	†	†
Somewhat useful	12	29	8	†	†
Very useful	80	54	87	†	†
Keeping you marketable to employers or clients
Not useful	6	10	5	†	†
Somewhat useful	13	26	10	†	†
Very useful	81	64	85	†	†
Improving your work skills
Not useful	10	13	9	17	7
Somewhat useful	24	31	22	29	27
Very useful	66	55	69	54	66
Increasing your pay
Not useful	†	†	†	42	38
Somewhat useful	†	†	†	28	25
Very useful	†	†	†	30	37
† Not applicable. The survey did not ask respondents about this usefulness measure.
NOTE: As defined in the survey, adults are ages 16 to 65 and not enrolled in high school. Postsecondary certificates are defined in the survey as certificates obtained from a community or technical college or other school after high school, and that included at least 40 hours of instruction and did not require being enrolled in or having completed a bachelor's or higher degree program. A work experience program is defined in the survey as an internship, co-op, practicum, clerkship, externship, residency, clinical experience, apprenticeship, or similar program. Work credentials are certifications and licenses; cases for which one or more reported work credentials were deemed invalid are treated as not having any reported work credentials (n=170). Respondents could report up to three specific work credentials. Most important credential is the credential that respondents reported as their most important one. This table excludes respondents who reported it was "Too soon to tell" if a credential, certificate, or program was useful for each outcome. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Adult Training and Education Survey (ATES) of the National Household Education Surveys Program, 2016.

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