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Table H246. Among 2013 public high school graduates who were career and technical education (CTE) concentrators, percentage who earned a postsecondary credential in the same field as their area of CTE concentration in high school or, if no credential earned, whose most recent postsecondary field of study was the same as their area of CTE concentration in high school: 2016
CTE concentrator group 2-credit CTE concentrator1   3-credit CTE concentrator1  
All CTE concentrators        
Credential or most recent field of study was same as area of CTE concentration2 18.8   20.3  
All credentials and most recent field of study were other than area of CTE concentration2 54.1   51.4  
No postsecondary education 27.1   28.4  
CTE concentrators who ever enrolled in postsecondary education        
Credential or most recent field of study was same as area of CTE concentration2 25.8   28.3  
CTE concentrators who were currently enrolled in postsecondary education        
Credential or most recent field of study was same as area of CTE concentration2 27.1   28.9  
1The 2- and 3-credit CTE concentrators are graduates who earned at least 2 and at least 3 credits, respectively, in at least one of the following 10 CTE areas: 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. Graduates who concentrated in more than one CTE area were counted only once.
2For graduates pursuing double majors, both major fields of study were used.
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). The table includes the 82.5 percent of public high school graduates who had a complete grade 9–12 transcript, defined as one that recorded at least 16 Carnegie units (a Carnegie unit is a credit hour, i.e., the equivalent of a course taken every school day, one period per day, for a full school year), with a positive, nonzero number of units completed in English. See https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2019046 for the taxonomy used to define high school subject areas. See https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2020/crosswalk2020019 for the crosswalk linking secondary and postsecondary occupational fields.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), Base-year, 2013 Update, High School Transcript, and Second Follow-Up.