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| Table 391. | Percentage of employed 1988 8th-graders satisfied with various aspects of their job, by educational attainment: 2000 |
| Educational attainment | Percentage who were satisfied with | |||||||||||||||
| Fringe benefits | Further training | Use of past training | Promotion opportunity | Job security | Work importance | Pay | Job overall | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| Method of high school completion by 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
| High school diploma | 79.2 | (0.84) | 79.0 | (0.89) | 80.3 | (1.24) | 71.5 | (1.19) | 89.9 | (0.59) | 83.7 | (0.78) | 73.0 | (0.95) | 86.8 | (0.69) |
| GED certificate | 69.1 | (4.47) | 74.4 | (4.22) | 74.9 | (4.46) | 73.1 | (4.35) | 90.3 | (2.48) | 80.4 | (4.26) | 75.6 | (4.13) | 83.7 | (4.01) |
| No diploma or equivalent | 48.2 | (6.61) | 68.9 | (6.38) | 72.5 | (6.29) | 62.5 | (6.68) | 72.8 | (6.21) | 85.3 | (5.14) | 65.0 | (6.90) | 74.0 | (6.44) |
| Postsecondary attainment by 2000 | ||||||||||||||||
| None | 69.4 | (2.80) | 71.7 | (2.73) | 77.1 | (2.68) | 69.1 | (2.65) | 85.6 | (2.18) | 84.0 | (2.48) | 74.5 | (2.45) | 83.3 | (2.53) |
| Less than bachelor's degree | 74.7 | (1.62) | 77.0 | (1.36) | 76.0 | (2.06) | 68.1 | (1.98) | 89.3 | (0.93) | 81.2 | (1.18) | 71.3 | (1.65) | 84.0 | (1.19) |
| Bachelor's degree | 83.0 | (1.15) | 83.2 | (1.18) | 84.7 | (1.02) | 75.8 | (1.21) | 90.2 | (0.99) | 85.9 | (1.00) | 73.0 | (1.30) | 89.3 | (0.91) |
| Master's or higher degree | 87.0 | (2.19) | 89.3 | (1.91) | 92.8 | (1.32) | 82.1 | (2.31) | 92.0 | (1.70) | 93.1 | (1.38) | 75.1 | (3.64) | 94.5 | (1.18) |
| NOTE: Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Coming of Age in the 1990s: The Eighth-Grade Class of 1988 12 Years Later, National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88/2000), "Fourth Follow-up, 2000." (This table was prepared April 2005.) |
