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Career/Technical Education Statistics (CTES)


Table H55. Percentage of public high school graduates earning any credits in consumer and culinary services who earned credits in each other occupational area and the average number of credits they earned in the other area: 2005
Occupational area Percent who earned any credits in the occupational area Average credits earned in the occupational area, among those who earned any credits in the area
     
Consumer and culinary services and any credits in:    
Any other occupational area 85.5 2.06
Agriculture and natural resources 11.6 1.67
Business 42.8 1.22
Communications and design 34.4 1.01
Computer and information sciences 16.1 0.97
Construction and architecture 4.4 1.46
Engineering technologies 7.8 0.99
Health sciences 11.2 1.61
Manufacturing, repair, and transportation 21.1 1.31
Marketing 10.5 1.29
Public services 8.0 1.25
NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who earned any credits in consumer and culinary services, 11.6 percent also earned credits in agriculture and natural resources. Also, among graduates who earned any credits in consumer and culinary services, the average number of credits earned in agriculture and natural resources was 1.67. The total weighted count of public high school graduates in 2005 was 2.4 million.
SOURCE: U .S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2005.