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Career/Technical Education (CTE) Statistics


Table H70. Percentage of public high school graduates concentrating in marketing who earned credits in each other occupational area and the average number of credits they earned in the other area: 2005
Occupational area Among 2-credit marketing concentrators1   Among 3-credit marketing concentrators2
Percent who earned any credit in the occupational area Average credits earned in the occupational area, among those who earned any credits in the 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
           
Marketing concentrator and any credits in:
Any other occupational area 87.4 2.40   84.1 2.25
Agriculture and natural resources 10.7 1.53   8.1
Business 56.6 1.40   56.7 1.39
Communications and design 23.8 1.14   21.3 1.19
Computer and information sciences 13.1 1.08   11.2 0.94
Construction and architecture 4.4 1.00   5.2
Consumer and culinary services 20.4 1.02   18.4 0.95
Engineering technologies 9.0 1.03   8.9 0.95
Health sciences 9.9 1.31   7.3
Manufacturing, repair, and transportation 17.2 1.23   15.2 1.25
Public services 5.3 0.81   4.5
Reporting standards not met. (Too few cases for a reliable estimate.)
1 2-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned 2.0 or more credits in any one of the 11 occupational areas listed in this table.
2 3-credit occupational concentrators are defined as graduates who earned 3.0 or more credits in any one of the 11 occupational areas listed in this table.
NOTE: This table shows, for example, that among public high school graduates who completed a 2-credit concentration in marketing, 87.4 percent earned credits in another occupational area, and 56.6 percent earned credits in business. Also, among graduates who completed a 2-credit concentration in marketing and also earned business credits, the average number of business credits earned was 1.40. 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.