Tables: Secondary/High School
Table H181. Average number of credits public high school graduates earned in each career and technical education (CTE) subject area, by sex: 1992, 2004, and 2013 |
CTE subject area |
Male |
|
Female |
|
1992 |
|
2004 |
|
2013 |
|
1992 |
|
2004 |
|
2013 |
|
Total, all CTE subject areas |
3.40 |
|
3.32 |
|
2.88 |
|
2.87 |
|
2.50 |
|
2.34 |
|
Agriculture and natural resources |
0.30 |
|
0.28 |
|
0.29 |
|
0.08 |
|
0.15 |
|
0.20 |
|
Business, finance, and marketing |
1.03 |
|
0.79 |
|
0.58 |
|
1.67 |
|
0.88 |
|
0.55 |
|
Communication and communication technologies |
0.27 |
|
0.35 |
|
0.30 |
|
0.31 |
|
0.40 |
|
0.37 |
|
Computer and information sciences |
0.17 |
|
0.37 |
|
0.28 |
|
0.15 |
|
0.19 |
|
0.16 |
|
Construction |
0.37 |
|
0.32 |
|
0.29 |
|
0.05 |
! |
0.03 |
|
0.04 |
|
Consumer services |
0.11 |
|
0.14 |
|
0.16 |
|
0.38 |
|
0.45 |
|
0.41 |
|
Engineering, design, and production |
0.80 |
|
0.68 |
|
0.54 |
|
0.11 |
|
0.15 |
|
0.12 |
|
Health care |
0.02 |
|
0.07 |
|
0.09 |
|
0.10 |
|
0.18 |
|
0.28 |
|
Mechanical repair and operation |
0.32 |
|
0.26 |
|
0.21 |
|
0.01 |
|
0.02 |
|
0.02 |
|
Public services |
0.02 |
|
0.05 |
|
0.13 |
|
0.02 |
|
0.06 |
|
0.19 |
|
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate. |
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 (1992, 2004, or 2013). The table includes only 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. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. See https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/xls/SSCT2018.xls for the taxonomy used to define subject areas. |
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), Second Follow-up and High School Transcript File; Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), First Follow-up and High School Transcript File; and High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), Base-year, 2013 Update, and High School Transcript File. |