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Career/Technical Education Statistics (CTES)


Table H58. Percentage of public high school graduates earning any credits in manufacturing, repair, and transportation 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
     
Manufacturing, repair, and transportation and    
any credits in:    
Any other occupational area 85.3 2.21
Agriculture and natural resources 16.4 1.89
Business 37.7 1.17
Communications and design 31.5 1.07
Computer and information sciences 19.5 1.12
Construction and architecture 13.2 1.66
Consumer and culinary services 19.1 1.09
Engineering technologies 19.7 1.13
Health sciences 6.8 1.24
Marketing 8.9 1.25
Public services 6.0 0.98
NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates from the class of 2005 who earned any credits in manufacturing, repair, and transportation, 16.4 percent also earned credits in agriculture and natural resources. Also, among graduates who earned any credits in manufacturing, repair, and transportation, the average number of credits earned in agriculture and natural resources was 1.89. 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.