Accounting for U.S. Military in the U.S. Census A Review of the Literature The United States has been taking census of all its citizens ever since the passing of the Census Act in 1790. The U.S. government is aware of how daunting this task can be. One of the more challenging aspects of the U.S. census is accounting for all of the U.S. military that are stationed around the world and in the U.S. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are approximately 1,431,000 service members currently serving on active duty. According to a study published by The Department of Defense, as of 2012, 52.6 percent of the military were married. One of the major challenges of including military, is the census of all military personnel stationed …show more content…
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The challenge of enumerating military personnel, as we have seen did not arise until July of 1989. That was when the U.S. decided to include the military in the census. Methodology One of the major issues in performing the necessary research is ensuring that you do not repeat the same mistakes previously made. One of the methods I will use is the simple random sampling. The reason I would choose this method of sampling is because of the following, One of the best things about simple random sampling is the ease of assembling the sample. It is also considered as a fair way of selecting a sample from a given population since every member is given equal opportunities of being selected. (www.explorable.com) There are other methods that can and should be considered. One method to consider, would be going through Defense and Accounting Service (D.F.A.S.).
You can go in the system and see each service member, and you can see how many dependents they are claiming as well what state they claim. You can also go the unit’s administration or as the military calls it, S-1. They have all the pertinent data the Census Bureau would need. However, great care would have to be taken so that no privacy laws would be
The concept of collecting census data has been around for thousands of years. It was a census that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem when Jesus was born. But it wasn't until the United States declared its independence and became its own country that counts were taken so consistently, or census records so well maintained.
After more than ten years of persistent counterinsurgency (COIN) conflict and multiple simultaneous responses to several natural disasters, the United States Army is at a crossroads regarding professional education for its officers and enlisted force. Considering overseas contingency operations in Iraq are due to conclude in December 2011 and by 2014 for Afghanistan, it is plausible that strategic planners are considering the future make-up of what will constitute the Total Army Force to include new educational criteria for what could be a smaller force than was needed for present day operations. While this may be “peace dividend” speculation, there is precedence for the Army to reevaluate its force structure and personal qualification requirements after every major conflict over the last century. . Even though defense budget reductions should redoubt army equipment priorities, training deferrals because of persistent contingency operations have inhibited enlisted professional development despite that counterinsurgency operations require refocused soldiers training to improve their sense of situational understanding and application of observable operational ethics through conceptual enlisted leadership evaluation efforts.
Homosexuality in the military had been frowned upon back dating since the late 1770’s. Due to fear of reprimand, men and women were able to join the military but did not discuss their sexuality. It was believed that homosexuality was criminalized in U. S. military law. Prior to World War II, there was no written policy barring homosexuals from serving, although sodomy was considered a crime by military law ever since Revolutionary War times (Powers, 2012).
There are many gratifying factors that attract people to the state of Texas which allows it to be one of the most diverse demographic systems in the United States. The most imperative influences in Texas’ are the prosperous business settings in its major cities, the vast amount of land and rich natural resources, and the convenient central location in the United States. All of these factors are attractive to citizens throughout the states and immigrants looking to migrate into the country. These features can cause a state to have major fluctuations in its demographics in regards to race, income, and age.
Moradi, B. (2009). Sexual orientation disclosure, concealment, harassment, and military cohesion: perceptions of LGBT military veterans... lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Military Psychology (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 21(4), 513-533.
Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (2006). 2006 Demographics Report. Retrieved from http://www.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2006%20Demographics.pdf
women in the military and found that 51.8 % of men and 74.6% of women
Adolescents and children classified as having an “emotional disability,” "emotionally disturbed," or "emotional disturbance (ED)" notably are under-identified and underserved in special education (Forness, Freeman, Paparella, Kauffman & Walker, 2007). Being a voice for the voiceless for the ED population is about solidifying the relationship of ideas to one another; this paradigm is about creating a capacity for awareness, caring, collaboration, equity, and social justice.
The children in military families face daily challenges because of deployment to war. Some do not understand why their parent has to leave, how long they will be gone or where they are going. The effects of deployment on children differ from the age they are. For example, an infant is going to act completely different than a teenager. Depending on the child they may feel unsecure because their comfort level has changed once their parent, guardian or older brother or sister has left. These people may be the only people around their house that they can trust. There is many different factors in how your child will react during the deployment process. You have to mentally and physically prepare your child for deployment, you must know how they are going to react, in order to watch out for them to keep them secure. Not only you have to prepare yourself and your child for deployment but you also need to prepare for them to come home and the challenges you may face as a family. Parents should support and watch their children of every age through every aspect of deployment, even when the family member is coming home, help them feel secure in their home, and help them talk though the emotions they face throughout the process of deployment.
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Military wives are perceived as stay at home moms that sit at home all day and take care of the kids. My views on the wives of soldiers is that they are pretty much single parents while their husbands are deployed. The wives are expected to keep the house up and running by doing the housework, cooking, cleaning and caring for the children. People on the outside looking in may think that all of the wives are unemployed and living off of their husbands. The wives are forced to deal with all the duties that, are they are supposed to share as a couple. In situations like this the wife may feel extremely overwhelmed, but the additional workload along with the work that she was doing before their husband was deployed. The conduction
Because the military trains you to be aggressive and violent and ready for war, they also separate people from their families. For that reason, it should not be surprising that they might have a higher rate of suicide than non-military women. What is more? These statistics may not consider everyone who died in the military because some of the suicides go unreported. When the US relied on the draft, the suicide rate for the military population had a tendency of matching the civilian population. According to Claire Hoffmire, an epidemiologist and head researcher at the VA, that could suggest that a certain type of person chooses to volunteer for military service. It could be that certain people join to escape from a bad childhood or bad situation. However, once in the military, they find that the situation did not improve as
For almost half a century, the U.S. military has been a pioneer in the use of aptitude tests to select individuals with sufficient skills and abilities to absorb military training, adjust to military life, and become successful military members (“History”, n.d.). The Army’s screening of recruits began in World War I, with the Army Alpha and Army Beta Tests, which were replaced with the Army General Classification Test during World War II. When Congress passed the Selective Service Act in 1948, the Department of Defense (DoD) developed the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) in response to Congress’ mandate that a uniform screening test to be used by all services be developed (‘Armed Services,’ 2014). In the 1960’s, DoD decided to develop a standardized military selection and classification test and administer it throughout U.S. high schools. In 1968, the DoD began administering the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery free of charge to interested 10th, 11th and 12th grade students and to students in postsecondary schools as a means to help provide enlistment eligibility information for military service (Armstrong, Chalupsky, McLaughlin, & Dalldorf, 1988), but it wasn’t used for military recruiting until a few years later. As of 1976, three years after the draft ended, the ASVAB was adopted as the single selection and classification battery for enlistment testing, and is administered to all potential recruits, with the results used to determine enlistment eligibility, job placement and the awarding of enlistment bonuses (‘Armed Services,’ 2014; Center, 2009). Table 1 lists and describes the ten different areas scored by the ASVAB.
The survey was collected on Google Forms via a single laptop to track each cadet who took the survey. This case study, unlike many other MMI case studies, makes sure cadets do not take the survey multiple times. This survey’s method targeted any cadet available throughout the day who was willing to take a survey. Eventually, the method targeted
3. Selecting a Sampling Technique: Selecting a sampling technique may require a little bit more time and may also involve several decisions, such as whether to use a Bayesian or traditional sampling approach, sample with or without replacement, and use non-probability or probability sampling