Population Representation 2004 - Selected Reserve Officer Accessions and Officer Corps

SELECTED RESERVE OFFICER ACCESSIONS AND OFFICER CORPS

Marital Status. In FY 2004, the proportion of Selected Reserve officer accessions and officers who were married was higher than for enlisted members. As in the Active Components, more males were married than females. Table 6.5 shows that the proportion of married male Selected Reserve officers (77 percent) is larger than the proportion of the male civilian college graduate labor force who are married (71 percent). The proportion of married female Selected Reserve officers (57 percent) is lower than for the comparable married, female, civilian college graduate labor force (61 percent).

Table 6.5. FY 2004 Selected Reserve Officers and Enlisted Members who were Married, and in Dual-Service Marriages, by Gender, and Civilians (Percent)
Gender	Reserve Officer Accessions	Civilians¹	Reserve Officer Corps	Dual-Service Marriages	Married Civilians²	Reserve Enlisted Members	Dual-Service Marriages	Married Civilians³
Male	57.8	49.1	76.5	3.0	71.0	50.1	2.2	55.3
Female	48.0	54.1	57.0	21.9	61.2	34.5	21.1	51.8
Total	55.0	51.8	72.6	6.0	66.4	47.4	4.6	53.7
Also see Appendix Tables C-16 (Reserve Enlisted Members by Age, Marital Status, and Gender) and C-26 (Reserve Officers by Gender, Marital Status, and Component). ¹21- to 35-Year-Old Civilian College Graduates ²Civilian College Graduates in the Work Force ³18- to 49-Year-Old Civilians in the Work Force; Excludes 17-year-olds and those over 49. Source: Civilian data from Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey File, October 2003 - September 2004.

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