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2000 High School Transcript Study Tabulations Report

Table 40-C.Percentage of high school graduates who earned minimum course credits in vocational courses, by selected school and student demographic characteristics: Selected years, 1982–2000 (1.0 credit in any Specific Labor Market Preparation course)

CharacteristicPercentage of graduates earning indicated minimum credits
2000 1998 1994 1990 1987 1982
Percent s.e. Percent s.e. Percent s.e. Percent s.e. Percent s.e. Percent s.e.
1.0 credit in any Specific Labor Market Preparation course 77.3 1.50 76.2 1.21 75.2 1.14 75.8 1.05 78.5 1.29 76.4 0.67
Student gender
Male 83.3 1.15 81.5 1.07 80.4 1.06 81.3 1.04 82.7 1.19 80.6 0.67
Female 71.7 2.02 71.0 1.48 70.2 1.50 70.9 1.29 74.6 1.53 72.7 0.84
Student race/ethnicity1
White 77.1 1.70 76.0 1.53 74.7 1.29 75.5 1.15 78.5 1.37 75.3 0.79
Black 80.4 1.89 80.8 1.88 80.1 1.81 79.0 2.05 78.9 2.15 79.8 1.36
Hispanic 79.8 2.83 79.0 1.48 78.6 2.03 77.7 2.08 81.3 1.73 81.2 0.96
Asian/Pacific Islander 66.8 5.30 74.6 2.45 68.3 3.93 68.7 4.14 71.5 2.86 66.0 5.05
American Indian 78.4 4.78 83.4 2.60 82.3 4.31 80.7 3.10 88.6 2.21 88.5 2.67
Student program
Academic 70.0 1.75 67.9 1.60 65.5 1.46 65.1 1.32 65.6 1.95 57.2 1.17
Vocational 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Both 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Neither 73.0 3.36 80.0 2.60 81.3 2.09 80.9 1.42 83.1 1.45 78.8 1.01
Community type2
Urban 71.3 3.28 70.0 2.50 75.4 1.93
Suburban 74.3 2.33 73.7 1.98 74.7 1.18
Rural 89.3 1.48 85.5 1.49 79.9 1.33
Big city 65.6 3.08 70.6 2.69 72.0 2.55
Urban fringe 69.2 2.41 73.5 1.88 77.6 1.36
Medium city 76.1 2.28 74.4 2.19 73.4 3.29
Small place 82.5 1.28 79.0 1.67 83.2 1.68
School type
Public 79.8 1.24 78.8 1.18 77.8 0.95 77.9 1.12 81.2 0.99 79.3 0.65
Nonpublic 50.0 7.57 48.8 7.40 44.8 6.02 55.5 4.08 53.6 5.78 53.0 2.94
Region of the country3
Northeast 69.8 4.18 66.0 5.23 71.8 3.60 73.1 2.16 73.4 3.49 71.8 1.88
South 82.4 2.88 84.1 1.80 81.5 1.70 79.3 1.97 79.5 2.16 75.7 0.87
Midwest 79.9 2.13 77.7 1.90 71.9 2.16 79.3 1.39 81.6 2.38 81.8 1.21
West 71.7 2.46 70.9 2.15 69.4 2.06 68.4 2.61 78.7 1.45 74.8 1.78

† Not applicable. In terms of community type, the community type definitions used in 1987, 1990, and 1994 differed from the community type definitions used in 1998 and 2000.

1 American Indian includes Alaska Native, Black includes African American, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and Hispanic includes Latino. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.

2 Although having similar names, the definitions for the 1982 high school graduates' community type subgroups are not compatible with the definitions for the 1998 and 2000 high school graduates' community type subgroups.

3 "Region of the country" refers to the Census-defined regions. For more information about Census-defined regions, see the U.S. Census Bureau online publication "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf [1.1M PDF]).

NOTE: Credit definitions listed in the row header indicate the minimum number of credits earned. For example, "1.0 credit in … course" represents "1.0 credit or more earned in … course."

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), Selected years 1987–2000; High School and Beyond (HS&B), 1982.


Last updated 22 May 2007 (MH)