Educational Attainment

What’s It Worth? Field of Training and Economic Status: 1996 - Appendix A

Appendix A. Fields of Training Categories

Questions on field of training were asked of people who received a vocational certificate or higher degree. People who received an advanced degree were asked about two fields of training: their advanced degree field and their bachelor's degree field. All others were asked about only one field. They were asked to categorize their fields as follows:

Vocational Certificate

1. Agriculture/Forestry/Horticulture
2. Auto mechanics
3. Aviation
4. Business/Office Management
5. Computer and Information Services
6. Construction Trades
7. Cosmetology
8. Drafting
9. Electronics
10. Food Service
11. Health Care
12. Home Economics
13. Hotel and Restaurant Management
14. Marketing and Distribution
15. Metal Working
16. Police/Protective Services
17. Refrigeration, Heating, or Air Conditioning
18. Transportation and Materials Moving
19. Other

Associate Degree

1. Agriculture/Forestry/Horticulture
2. Business/Office Management
3. Communications
4. Computer and Information Services
5. Education
6. Engineering/Drafting
7. Health Sciences
8. Liberal Art/Humanities
9. Natural Sciences(Biological and Physical)
10. Police/Protective Services
11. Social Sciences/History
12. Visual and Commercial Arts
13. Other Vocational/Technical Studies
14. Other

Bachelor's Degree

1. Agriculture/Forestry
2. Art/Architecture
3. Business/Management
4. Communications
5. Computer and Information Sciences
6. Education
7. Engineering
8. English/Literature
9. Foreign Languages
10. Health Sciences
11. Liberal Arts/Humanities
12. Math/Statistics
13. Nature Sciences(Biological and Physical)
14. Philosophy/Religion/Theology
15. Pre-Professional
16. Psychology
17. Social Sciences/History
18. Other

Advanced Degree

1. Agriculture
2. Art/Architecture
3. Business/Management
4. Communications
5. Computer and Information Sciences
6. Education
7. Engineering
8. English/Literature
9. Foreign Languages
10. Law
11. Liberal Arts/Humanities
12. Math/Statistics
13. Medicine/Dentistry
14. Nature Sciences(Biological and Physical)
15. Nursing/Pharmacy/Public Health
16. Philosophy/Religion/Theology
17. Psychology
18. Social Sciences/History
19. Other

Different combinations of the above-named fields were used for reporting data on field of training. Table 3 in this table package lists the counts of people according to the listed field they gave from the classifications above. These fields are also listed in Table A1.

Table A in the report accompanying these tables (P70-72) uses detailed fields.

In Tables 4A to 4D, the same categories were used, although fields where there were less than 100,000 estimated people were suppressed.

In Tables 4E to 4N, a collapsed set of fields of study were used in order to facilitate comparison across degree levels. These collapsed fields are referred to as "basic classification" in Table A1. In other words, the classification "business" used in Table 4E includes people with associate degrees in business/office management, communications and visual and commercial arts.