Table C-4.  Non-Prior Service (NPS) Selected Reserve Enlisted Gains, FY17: by Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) Category, Component, and Gender with Civilian Comparison Group
Number
  AFQT CATEGORY1   I + II + IIIA
GENDER I       II       IIIA      IIIB      IV       Inelig./Unk. * TOTAL  Subtotal
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 1,686 7,991 4,842 7,374 854 44 22,791 14,519
   Females 278 2,034 1,772 3,292 62 9 7,447 4,084
   Total 1,964 10,025 6,614 10,666 916 53 30,238 18,603
   Percent Females 14.15 20.29 26.79 30.86 6.77 16.98 24.63 21.95
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 579 2,863 1,784 3,065 30 54 8,375 5,226
   Females 129 997 872 1,412 14 20 3,444 1,998
   Total 708 3,860 2,656 4,477 44 74 11,819 7,224
   Percent Females 18.22 25.83 32.83 31.54 31.82 27.03 29.14 27.66
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 42 432 359 254 12 485 1,584 833
   Females 16 145 120 94 2 180 557 281
   Total 58 577 479 348 14 665 2,141 1,114
   Percent Females 27.59 25.13 25.05 27.01 14.29 27.07 26.02 25.22
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 418 2,318 1,408 1,229 0 77 5,450 4,144
   Females 5 50 40 12 1 10 118 95
   Total 423 2,368 1,448 1,241 1 87 5,568 4,239
   Percent Females 1.18 2.11 2.76 0.97 100 11.49 2.12 2.24
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 347 1,702 744 584 0 97 3,474 2,793
   Females 58 573 373 364 0 28 1,396 1,004
   Total 405 2,275 1,117 948 0 125 4,870 3,797
   Percent Females 14.32 25.19 33.39 38.40 ----- 22.40 28.67 26.44
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 182 870 391 335 0 21 1,799 1,443
   Females 51 392 317 279 0 5 1,044 760
   Total 233 1,262 708 614 0 26 2,843 2,203
   Percent Females 21.89 31.06 44.77 45.44 ----- 19.23 36.72 34.50
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 3,254 16,176 9,528 12,841 896 778 43,473 28,958
   Females 537 4,191 3,494 5,453 79 252 14,006 8,222
   Total 3,791 20,367 13,022 18,294 975 1,030 57,479 37,180
   Percent Females 14.17 20.58 26.83 29.81 8.10 24.47 24.37 22.11
1997,  18-23 YR-OLD CIVILIANS 2              
   Males 858,426 3,063,109 1,619,470 1,943,276 2,075,562 1,012,481 10,572,324 5,541,005
   Females 800,745 2,775,846 1,661,068 2,021,007 2,303,734 972,965 10,535,365 5,237,659
   Total 1,659,171 5,838,955 3,280,538 3,964,283 4,379,296 1,985,446 21,107,689 10,778,664
   Percent Females 48.26 47.54 50.63 50.98 52.61 49.00 49.91 48.59
Percent
  AFQT CATEGORY1   I + II + IIIA
GENDER I       II       IIIA      IIIB      IV       Inelig./Unk. * TOTAL  Subtotal
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 7.40 35.06 21.25 32.35 3.75 0.19 100 63.70
   Females 3.73 27.31 23.79 44.21 0.83 0.12 100 54.84
   Total 6.50 33.15 21.87 35.27 3.03 0.18 100 61.52
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 6.91 34.19 21.30 36.60 0.36 0.64 100 62.40
   Females 3.75 28.95 25.32 41.00 0.41 0.58 100 58.01
   Total 5.99 32.66 22.47 37.88 0.37 0.63 100 61.12
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 2.65 27.27 22.66 16.04 0.76 30.62 100 52.59
   Females 2.87 26.03 21.54 16.88 0.36 32.32 100 50.45
   Total 2.71 26.95 22.37 16.25 0.65 31.06 100 52.03
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 7.67 42.53 25.83 22.55 0 1.41 100 76.04
   Females 4.24 42.37 33.90 10.17 0.85 8.47 100 80.51
   Total 7.60 42.53 26.01 22.29 0.02 1.56 100 76.13
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 9.99 48.99 21.42 16.81 0 2.79 100 80.40
   Females 4.15 41.05 26.72 26.07 0 2.01 100 71.92
   Total 8.32 46.71 22.94 19.47 0 2.57 100 77.97
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 10.12 48.36 21.73 18.62 0 1.17 100 80.21
   Females 4.89 37.55 30.36 26.72 0 0.48 100 72.80
   Total 8.20 44.39 24.90 21.60 0 0.91 100 77.49
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 7.49 37.21 21.92 29.54 2.06 1.79 100 66.61
   Females 3.83 29.92 24.95 38.93 0.56 1.80 100 58.70
   Total 6.60 35.43 22.66 31.83 1.70 1.79 100 64.68
1997,  18-23 YR-OLD CIVILIANS 2              
   Males 8.12 28.97 15.32 18.38 19.63 9.58 100 52.41
   Females 7.60 26.35 15.77 19.18 21.87 9.24 100 49.72
   Total 7.86 27.66 15.54 18.78 20.75 9.41 100 51.07
   
Note: Enlisted gains reflect an addition to the enlisted ranks between 1 October 2016 and 30 September 2017. This addition can reflect a new accession, a movement from another component, or the return of the officer to the same component.  The OSD definition of a gain is a transaction in a database that reflects the addition of an SSN that was not in the previous file.
1. AFQT scores are percentiles that are normalized to the 1997 American youth population.  For example, a score of 92 represents the 92nd percentile and means that 92 percent of the youth population scored at or below that score.  It is standard to report these AFQT score percentiles in the categories listed below.
Cat I:   100-93 Cat IIIB:   49-31
Cat II:   92-65 Cat IV:   30-10
Cat IIIA:   64-50 Cat V:   9-1
2. AFQT percentile scores are normed by a nationally-representative sample of American youth.  The 1997 norming replaced the 1980 norming, which replaced the WWII norming.  AFQT category V individuals are ineligible for military service.
Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source:  Civilian data from Bureau of  Labor Statistics Current Population Survey, noninstitutionsl, October 2016-September 2017 average.  Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).