Retention of MAC Strategic Airlift Pilots. An Analysis of the Strategic Airlift Aircrew Survey.
Abstract
This study analyzes the career intent of MAC strategic airlift pilots with less than eight years service. The data were obtained from the Strategic Airlift Aircrew Survey conducted in November, 1977. The study employed factor analysis, the Automatic Interaction Detection algorithm (AID), multiple linear regression, and selected subroutines from the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) as a means of relating career intent to a variety of possible predictors. The analysis results were not very conclusive in that less than half of the variance in the career intent question was explained by the predictor set. The writer believes that these unclear results are due primarily to the complexity of the causal factors. Several survey questions also had very skewed distributions, so that although a problem was clearly identified, the question was not useful as a predictor of career intent. While acknowledging the limitations of the low explanatory power of the predictors found in this study, the most powerful predictors of career intent that were found include: interest in the airlines, importance of the Air Force as an institution, flying pay as an incentive, and lack of concern for the individual. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA065904
Entities
People
- Steven Knudsen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology