Tables: Secondary/High School
| Table H254. Among 2013 public high school graduates currently employed and not enrolled in postsecondary education, percentage who are satisfied with their current job, by career and technical (CTE) coursetaking pattern in high school: 2016 |
| CTE coursetaking pattern in high school |
Percent |
Public high school graduates currently employed
and not enrolled in postsecondary education1 |
81.9 |
| Number of CTE credits earned |
|
| 0.00–0.99 |
84.2 |
| 1.00–2.99 |
81.3 |
| 3.00 or more |
81.7 |
| 2-credit CTE concentrator status2 |
|
| Concentrators |
83.0 |
| Agriculture and natural resources |
81.8 |
| Business, finance, and marketing |
82.9 |
| Communication and communication technologies |
86.1 |
| Computer and information sciences |
89.3 |
| Construction |
82.3 |
| Consumer services |
84.6 |
| Engineering, design, and production |
77.9 |
| Health care |
90.8 |
| Mechanical repair and operation |
79.9 |
| Public services |
82.6 |
| Nonconcentrators |
81.0 |
Earned at least 2 CTE credits, but fewer
than 2 credits in any single CTE area |
82.2 |
| Earned fewer than 2 CTE credits |
80.3 |
| 3-credit CTE concentrator status2 |
|
| Concentrators |
81.8 |
| Agriculture and natural resources |
79.3 |
| Business, finance, and marketing |
72.8 |
| Communication and communication technologies |
82.9 |
| Computer and information sciences |
‡ |
| Construction |
88.5 |
| Consumer services |
73.8 |
| Engineering, design, and production |
81.8 |
| Health care |
92.7 |
| Mechanical repair and operation |
80.7 |
| Public services |
‡ |
| Nonconcentrators |
81.9 |
Earned at least 3 CTE credits, but fewer
than 3 credits in any single CTE area |
81.6 |
| Earned fewer than 3 CTE credits |
82.1 |
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the standard error is greater than 50 percent of the estimate. |
| 1Overall, 34.2 percent of graduates are currently employed and not enrolled in postsecondary education. |
| 2The 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 10 CTE areas listed in the table. Graduates who concentrated in more than one CTE area were counted only once in the "Concentrators" row. |
| NOTE: Students were given the following response options when reporting their job satisfaction: very satisfied, somewhat satisfied, somewhat dissatisfied, and very dissatisfied. Data in this table are based on responses of "very satisfied" and "somewhat satisfied." 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 subject areas. |
| 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. |
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