Table 1.
Distributions of socio-demographic and Army career variables in quarter 2 2011 through quarter 4 2012 of the Army STARRS New Soldier Study analysis sample and the target population of all comparable new U.S. Army soldiers1
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| Gender2 | ||||||||||
| Male | 86.4 | 0.4 | 86.2 | 0.5 | 86.3 | 78.6 | 0.6 | 78.2 | 0.7 | 78.5 |
| Female | 13.6 | 0.4 | 13.8 | 0.5 | 13.7 | 21.4 | 0.6 | 21.8 | 0.7 | 21.5 |
| Race/ethnicity2 | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 17.5 | 0.4 | 17.7 | 0.4 | 20.3 | 16.4 | 0.3 | 16.0 | 0.4 | 17.9 |
| Non-Hispanic White | 61.2 | 0.4 | 58.0 | 0.5 | 61.3 | 60.4 | 0.5 | 61.0 | 0.6 | 64.3 |
| Hispanic | 14.4 | 0.3 | 16.4 | 0.3 | 12.9 | 15.9 | 0.3 | 15.0 | 0.4 | 11.9 |
| Other | 6.9 | 0.2 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 5.5 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 8.1 | 0.3 | 5.8 |
| Soldier education2 | ||||||||||
| Less than high school | 4.3 | 0.1 | 4.3 | 0.1 | 4.4 | 20.7 | 0.4 | 28.8 | 0.7 | 29.2 |
| Completed high school | 87.1 | 0.4 | 87.6 | 0.4 | 87.6 | 70.9 | 0.5 | 63.5 | 0.7 | 63.1 |
| Some college/college graduate | 8.6 | 0.3 | 8.1 | 0.4 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 7.7 | 0.4 | 7.7 |
| Marital status2 | ||||||||||
| Currently married | 13.8 | 0.3 | 15.3 | 0.4 | 15.1 | 9.7 | 0.3 | 8.9 | 0.4 | 8.4 |
| Never married | 86.2 | 0.3 | 84.7 | 0.4 | 84.1 | 90.2 | 0.3 | 90.9 | 0.4 | 90.4 |
| Previously married | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| Religion3 | ||||||||||
| Protestant | 55.7 | 0.4 | 54.8 | 0.5 | 56.5 | 57.2 | 0.4 | 57.1 | 0.5 | 50.3 |
| Catholic | 16.9 | 0.3 | 17.2 | 0.3 | 14.9 | 19.2 | 0.3 | 19.2 | 0.4 | 11.9 |
| Other religion | 3.9 | 0.1 | 4.3 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 1.3 |
| No religion | 23.5 | 0.3 | 23.8 | 0.4 | 26.8 | 19.5 | 0.3 | 19.5 | 0.4 | 36.5 |
| Nativity4 | ||||||||||
| Immigrant | 6.7 | 0.2 | 7.4 | 0.3 | -- | 7.2 | 0.2 | 6.9 | 0.2 | -- |
| First generation | 12.1 | 0.2 | 13.2 | 0.3 | -- | 12.4 | 0.3 | 12.3 | 0.3 | -- |
| Second+ generation | 81.2 | 0.4 | 79.5 | 0.4 | -- | 80.4 | 0.4 | 80.8 | 0.4 | -- |
| Parent education relative to Soldier education4 | ||||||||||
| Parents college graduate | 27.0 | 0.4 | 26.5 | 0.4 | -- | 27.8 | 0.4 | 28.1 | 0.4 | -- |
| Parents some college completed | 23.4 | 0.3 | 23.6 | 0.3 | -- | 24.0 | 0.4 | 23.9 | 0.4 | -- |
| All other | 49.6 | 0.4 | 49.9 | 0.4 | -- | 48.2 | 0.5 | 48.0 | 0.5 | -- |
| Age-at-enlistment2 | ||||||||||
| 17-18 | 22.6 | 0.7 | 24.3 | 0.8 | 23.5 | 28.3 | 0.6 | 33.2 | 0.9 | 33.5 |
| 19 | 21.1 | 0.4 | 21.1 | 0.4 | 21.3 | 20.3 | 0.4 | 19.6 | 0.4 | 18.8 |
| 20 | 15.1 | 0.3 | 14.6 | 0.3 | 14.7 | 13.6 | 0.3 | 12.9 | 0.3 | 12.9 |
| 21 | 10.2 | 0.3 | 10.0 | 0.3 | 10.0 | 8.9 | 0.2 | 8.6 | 0.3 | 8.3 |
| 22-24 | 18.3 | 0.4 | 17.2 | 0.4 | 17.2 | 14.6 | 0.3 | 13.0 | 0.3 | 13.5 |
| 25+ | 12.7 | 0.3 | 12.9 | 0.4 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 0.4 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 13.0 |
Abbreviations: Army STARRS, Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers; SE, standard error.
The population data were obtained from the Defense Manpower Data Center Master Personnel and Contingency Tracking System (CTS) for all new soldiers in the Regular Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve. Results are based on monthly CTS snapshots for the 20-month period between April 2011 and November 2012. The Army STARRS New Soldier Study analysis included 38,507 participants (Regular Army n=21,840; Guard/Reserve n=16,667), and the target population of comparable new US Army soldiers included 251,068 (Regular Army n=150,337; Guard/Reserve n=100,731). The estimate of population size is averaged over the 20 months to generate the population data.
Gender, race/ethnicity, soldier education, marital status, and age-at-enlistment were used to post-stratify the sample to the population. This allowed the population estimates to be identical to the weighted estimates, except for the small number of cases where self-report data differed from administrative data.
Religion was included in the post-stratification for the Regular Army and Guard soldiers, but was not included in the post-stratification to the population for Reserve soldiers because it was not significant in the final stepwise regression model.
Nativity and parent education were not used for post-stratification because no measures of these variables were available in the total population. Immigrant=the soldier was not born in the US; First generation=the soldier was born in the US but at least one parent was not born in the US; Second+ generation=the soldier and both the soldier’s parents were born in the US.Parents college graduate=at least one parent completed college and the soldier had a lower level of education than college graduation; Parents some college=at least one parent completed some college and the soldier had a lower level of education.