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Table H186. Percentage of public high school graduates who earned any credits, and various minimum numbers of credits, by career and technical education (CTE) curricular and subject area: 2013
CTE curricular and subject area Any credits     At least 1 credit     At least 2 credits     At least 3 credits  
CTE 88.0     80.7     58.3     38.9  
Agriculture and natural resources 14.3     11.0     5.0     2.6  
Business, finance, and marketing 43.3     30.2     9.6     4.1  
Business management 13.6     8.2     1.6     0.4  
Finance 10.1     6.4     1.3     0.2 !
Marketing 8.8     6.1     1.7     0.6  
Office support 24.8     15.1     1.7     0.4 !
Communication and communication technologies 28.6     19.2     5.4     1.8  
Computer and information sciences 20.3     13.6     2.7     0.9  
Construction 10.5     7.4     3.0     1.5  
Consumer services 21.5     13.7     4.8     2.2  
Child and elder care 7.1     3.5     0.7     0.2 !
Cosmetology 1.3     1.2     0.8     0.7  
Hospitality services 13.1     7.9     2.7     1.0  
Textiles and furnishings 3.3     1.4     0.1 !    
Engineering, design, and production 21.5     16.2     6.3     3.2  
Engineering and design 12.9     9.8     3.2     1.6  
Manufacturing and technology 11.4     7.7     2.5     1.1  
Health care 11.4     8.7     4.0     2.1  
Mechanical repair and operation 6.5     4.4     2.1     1.4  
Public services 13.1     9.1     2.4     1.0  
Education 3.7     3.1     1.3     0.5 !
Public safety and administration 9.6     6.1     1.0     0.5  
                       
CTE-related 45.3     26.7     7.3     2.2  
Family and consumer sciences education 37.0     20.0     4.6     1.0  
Career exploration 15.5     7.2     1.4     0.6  
                       
CTE and CTE-related 92.0     85.8     67.4     48.8  
! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate.
‡ Reporting standards not met. The standard error is greater than 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 (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. See https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/xls/SSCT2018.xls for the taxonomy used to define subject areas. The estimated total number of public high school graduates is 3,192,000, with a standard error of 31,300.
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, and High School Transcript File.