Table 2.

Types of Occupations for Which Job Skills Training Participants Were Trained by Training Types, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.

	Classroom Skills Training (n = 395; 81.6 %)		On-the-Job Training or Work Experience (n = 156; 32.5 %)
	n	% (95 % CI)	n	% (95 % CI)
Office & administrative support	146	34.7 (30.0–40.8)	42	20.2 (14.1–28.1)
Technical, operative, & craft	116	30.4 (24.8–36.7)	54	38.0 (28.6–48.4)
Service	81	19.5 (15.2–24.8)	30	18.1 (11.9–26.6)
Professional & management	60	18.7 (13.9–24.7)	21	19.3 (11.6–30.4)
Laborers	12	2.4 (1.2–4.8)	7	4.2 (1.7–9.6)
Sales	9	1.7 (0.7–4.0)	3	0.8 (0.3–2.7)
Farming, fishing, & forestry	–	–	–	–

Notes. Information on occupation types targeted by on-the-job training programs was not collected after 1982. Of the government-sponsored program participants, 122 reported receiving both classroom skills training and on-the-job training or work experience.