Table 8.Percentage of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by employment status (2012)

Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)

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Table 8. Percentage of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by employment status (2012)Percentage of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Concentrators compared to Non-Concentrators among 2003-04 public high school graduates, by employment status (2012)

Characteristics		Employed >= 35 hours per week	Employed < 35 hours per week	Unemployed	Out of the laber force²
	Employment status¹
Total		69.4	14.9	9.4	6.3

CTE Concentrator³		72.2	12.7	10.1	5.0
Non-CTE Concentrator		68.8	15.4	9.3	6.5
¹ Employment status includes all jobs, full-time and part-time, that the sample member reported as of 2012, as found in F3EMPSTAT.
² Out of the labor force indicates those who reported that they were not employed and not searching for work at the time of the interview.
³ A "CTE concentrator" is defined as a high school student who earned three or more credits in CTE courses in one specific topic area while in high school, as indicated on the student's high school transcript.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002), Third Follow-up Restricted-use File.

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