Table 1.
Unweighted socio-demographic and Army career characteristic distribution in the training and validation samples†
| Training sample | Validation sample | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Ever deployed | Never deployed | |||||||||
| % | (SE) | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | % | (SE) | ||||
| Female | 6.3 | (0.3) | 18.0 | (0.4) | 12.6 | (0.4) | 24.3 | (0.6) | |||
| Low education (No college) | 83.1 | (0.4) | 74.2 | (0.4) | 69.0 | (0.6) | 80.3 | (0.5) | |||
| Minority status (Non-Hispanic Black/Hispanic)‡ | 23.6 | (0.4) | 26.0 | (0.4) | 23.9 | (0.5) | 28.4 | (0.6) | |||
| Junior enlisted rank (E1-E4) | 50.1 | (0.5) | 56.9 | (0.5) | 34.9 | (0.6) | 82.3 | (0.5) | |||
| History of multiple combat deployments | 49.5 | (0.5) | 27.4 | (0.4) | 51.2 | (0.6) | 0.0 | (0.0) | |||
| (n) | (8,917) | (11,728) | (6,280) | (5,448) | |||||||
†
The training sample consisted of all T2 and T3 respondents to the Army STARRS Pre-Post Deployment Study. The validation sample consisted of all participants in the STARRS Longitudinal Study T1 survey who were not in the training sample. See the text for more detail on the samples.