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Table A74. Among adults ages 25 to 64 with a work credential (certification or license), percentage who find their most important work credential useful for various objectives, by highest level of education, work credential field, and whether work credential is used for the current job: 2016
| Background and program characteristic | Useful for getting a job |
Useful for keeping a job |
Useful for keeping you marketable to employers or clients |
Useful for improving your work skills |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total, all adults with a work credential | 90.8 | 91.0 | 92.7 | 88.9 | ||||||
| Highest level of education | ||||||||||
| High school or less | 90.5 | 89.9 | 89.9 | 88.0 | ||||||
| Some college, no bachelor’s degree (including certificate holders) |
87.8 | 88.8 | 90.6 | 89.1 | ||||||
| Bachelor's or higher degree | 92.6 | 92.7 | 94.8 | 89.0 | ||||||
| Work credential field | ||||||||||
| Science, engineering, and mathematics | 81.1 | 82.1 | 91.8 | 85.1 | ||||||
| Business | 85.3 | 87.9 | 92.9 | 92.5 | ||||||
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 88.3 | 89.6 | 91.9 | 90.6 | ||||||
| Healthcare | 94.2 | 94.4 | 94.3 | 91.6 | ||||||
| Personal care and services | 92.0 | 88.3 | 89.2 | 87.9 | ||||||
| Public and social services | 88.9 | 91.1 | 92.8 | 89.6 | ||||||
| Teaching and instruction | 96.7 | 95.9 | 95.4 | 88.8 | ||||||
| Trades | 88.8 | 89.1 | 91.7 | 87.3 | ||||||
| Other fields | 81.6 | 82.6 | 89.5 | 87.8 | ||||||
| Work credential used for current job | ||||||||||
| Yes | 94.1 | 96.3 | 96.5 | 91.9 | ||||||
| No (including not employed) | 79.7 | 73.6 | 80.1 | 78.8 |
| NOTE: Adults are ages 25 to 64 and not enrolled in high school. The total number of adults who have a work credential is 38,325,000. Work credentials include certifications and licenses. Certifications and licenses were defined in the survey as follows: "A professional certification or license shows you are qualified to perform a specific job and includes things like licensed realtor, certified medical assistant, certified teacher, or an IT certification." If a respondent indicated that a license or certification was required by a government agency, it was counted as a license; otherwise it was counted as a certification. Information was collected on respondents’ three most important licenses and certifications. Respondents could select "Very useful," "Somewhat useful," "Not useful," and "Too soon to tell." Numerators include ratings of "Very useful" and "Somewhat useful." All percentages exclude those who selected "Too soon to tell." | |||||||||||
| 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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