Adult Attitudes Toward the Military: Poll Three

Abstract

This report presents the results of the third adult poll in a series that looked at images of occupations, advice given to youth about options after high school, favorability of the military and knowledge of the military. The audience profiled in this survey was the population of influencers, and included American adults ages 22 to 85 years old. Interviewing was conducted via computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) during the period of January 18 to January 28, 2002. Nine out of 10 adult Americans had very positive or positive images of people serving full-time in the active duty military (93%), and people serving part-time in the National Guard or Reserves (89%). The option that adults were most likely to advise after graduating from high school was attend a four-year college or university (91%) or attend a trade, technical, vocational or community college (82%). Sixty-six percent of adults reported that they would recommend military service.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA416463

Entities

People

  • Amie K. Wang
  • Anita R. Lancaster
  • Barbara J. George
  • James A. Hoskins
  • Mary E. Strackbein
  • Sean M. Marsh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Families (Human)
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Military Personnel
  • National Guard
  • Personnel Management
  • Security Personnel
  • Students
  • Surveys
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Economics
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • STEM Education