Estimation of AFEES (Armed Forces Entrance Examination Stations) Survey Weights.

Abstract

The 1979 DoD Survey of Personnel Entering Military Service was administered to individuals signing military enlistment contracts at Armed Forces Entrance Examination Stations (AFEES). As with all surveys, some individuals in the sampled population did not respond and complete an AFEES Survey. This Note describes a methodology used to develop weights which make the respondent sample more representative of the underlying population with respect to known population demographic parameters. The weights have fairly high efficiency, so population inferences based on the weighted broaden the applications of the database. The Note also discusses appropriate uses of the weighted file and briefly reviews several recent articles on applications of survey weights to statistical analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142977

Entities

People

  • R. Buddin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cell Count
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • New England
  • Precision
  • Recruiting
  • Recruits
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Samples
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy