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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.