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Fetch Industry Valued Credentials Data

Source: R/fetch_college_career.R
fetch_industry_credentials.Rd

Downloads and extracts industry-valued credentials earned by students from the SPR database. Organized by career cluster.

Usage

fetch_industry_credentials(end_year, level = "school")

Arguments

end_year

A school year (2017-2024). Year is the end of the academic year - eg 2020-21 school year is end_year '2021'.

level

One of "school" or "district". "school" returns school-level data, "district" returns district and state-level data.

Value

Data frame with industry credentials including:

  • end_year, county_id, county_name, district_id, district_name

  • school_id, school_name (for school-level data)

  • career_cluster - Career cluster area (e.g., "Health Sciences", "STEM")

  • students_enrolled - Number of students enrolled in CTE program

  • earned_one_credential - Students earning at least one credential

  • credentials_earned - Total industry credentials earned

  • Aggregation flags (is_state, is_county, is_district, is_school, is_charter)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Get 2024 industry credentials
creds <- fetch_industry_credentials(2024)

# Top schools by credentials earned
creds %>%
  group_by(school_name) %>%
  summarize(total_credentials = sum(credentials_earned, na.rm = TRUE)) %>%
  dplyr::arrange(desc(total_credentials))
} # }