Small-Area Estimates for Military Personnel Planning. Report of a Workshop Held June 10-11, 1988
Abstract
Since the end of the military draft in 1972, military personnel planners have been faced with the problem of recruiting new enlistees to maintain prescribed military levels and staff the various complex jobs involved in maintaining a modern military. At present, the Department of Defense, through the individual branches of the services, annually recruits approximately 300,000 enlistees without prior service. Each service's overall recruitment goal is established consistent with its budget and overall defense plan. Each service has its own recruitment goals and targets, maintains a recruiting network, and has its individual procedures for achieving its mission of recruiting the required number of enlistees. The services have also developed various methodologies (and data sets) for estimating the size, composition, and geographic location (at some stated small-area level such as county) of the main population groups from which it draws. Such information is extremely important and valuable for targeting the recruitment efforts, establishing recruitment goals, and evaluating the performance of such efforts. (sdw)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA216566
Entities
Organizations
- National Research Council