Cost and Retention Impacts of the Navy's Conus Recreation Program.
Abstract
This study is an evaluation of the benefits and costs associated with the Navy's shore-based Recreation Program. The evaluation is achieved by determining the cost effectiveness of the Overall Recreation Program as well as that for the fourteen individual Recreation Categories. A significant by-product of the cost-effectiveness has been the estimation of income from and costs (operating as well as capital costs) of individual Recreation Categories. The results are based on extensive information gathered from over 11,000 active duty eligible users as well as the managers of the Recreation Program at 16 diverse Navy Installations in CONUS. The Recreation Program has been evaluated not only in terms of its benefits to the Navy individual and dependents but also with respect to its overall impact on the Navy in terms of maintaining retention rates. This evaluation has been accomplished utilizing econometric models that take into account established relationships between changes in income and changes in retention. Other key ingredients of these model are estimates of recruiting and training costs utilized in the retention cost calculations. In addition, optimization models for resource allocation across the Recreation Categories have been developed. These models ensure the uniform distribution of benefits to the various demographic groups. Finally, the methodical pretesting of the survey instruments and the statistical randomness, size and geographical representation of the survey sample utilized in this study ensure the reliability of the results. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA038654
Entities
People
- Anthony B. Deandrade
- Atam P. Lalchandani
- David P. Snyder
- Richard C. Morey
- Thomas H. Humphreys