Table E-16.  Coast Guard Active Component Commissioned Officer Gains and Corps, FY17: by Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Officer Gains 1                                
RACE
WHITE BLACK AIAN2 ASIAN NHPI3 TWO OR MORE UNKNOWN TOTAL
GENDER #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       %
Males 144 77.4 13 7.0 1 0.54 2 1.1 1 0.54 5 2.7 20 10.8 186 100
Females 52 76.5 6 8.8 1 1.5 4 5.9 0 0 1 1.5 4 5.9 68 100
TOTAL 196 77.2 19 7.5 2 0.79 6 2.4 1 0.39 6 2.4 24 9.4 254 100
   Percent Females 26.5 31.6 50.0 66.7 0 16.7 16.7 26.8
With the Unknowns distributed like the Knowns
WHITE BLACK AIAN2 ASIAN NHPI3 TWO OR MORE
GENDER     %     %     %     %     %     %
Males 86.7 7.8 0.60 1.2 0.60 3.0
Females   81.3   9.4   1.6   6.3   0   1.6
TOTAL 85.2 8.3 0.87 2.6 0.43 2.6
             
ETHNICITY
HISPANIC NOT HISPANIC4 TOTAL
GENDER #       % #       % #       %
Males 24 12.9 162 87.1 186 100
Females 9 13.2 59 86.8 68 100
TOTAL 33 13.0 221 87.0 254 100
   Percent Females 27.3 26.7 26.8
Officer Corps 5                                
RACE
WHITE BLACK AIAN2 ASIAN NHPI3 TWO OR MORE UNKNOWN TOTAL
GENDER #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       % #       %
Males 3,978 78.4 205 4.0 55 1.08 78 1.5 10 0.20 240 4.7 511 10.1 5,077 100
Females 1,081 73.6 81 5.5 13 0.89 46 3.1 7 0.48 99 6.7 141 9.6 1,468 100
TOTAL 5,059 77.3 286 4.4 68 1.04 124 1.9 17 0.26 339 5.2 652 10.0 6,545 100
   Percent Females 21.4 28.3 19.1 37.1 41.2 29.2 21.6 22.4
With the Unknowns distributed like the Knowns
WHITE BLACK AIAN2 ASIAN NHPI3 TWO OR MORE
GENDER     %     %     %     %     %     %
Males 87.1 4.5 1.20 1.7 0.22 5.3
Females   81.5   6.1   0.98   3.5   0.53   7.5
TOTAL 85.8 4.9 1.15 2.1 0.29 5.8
             
ETHNICITY
HISPANIC NOT HISPANIC UNKNOWN TOTAL
GENDER #       % #       % #       % #       %
Males 440 8.7 3,798 74.8 839 16.5 5,077 100
Females 137 9.3 1,032 70.3 299 20.4 1,468 100
TOTAL 577 8.8 4,830 73.8 1,138 17.4 6,545 100
   Percent Females 23.7 21.4 26.3 22.4
With the Unknowns distributed like the Knowns
ETHNICITY
HISPANIC NOT HISPANIC
GENDER #       % #       %
Males 10.4 89.6
Females   11.7   88.3
TOTAL 10.7 89.3
     
1. Officer gains reflect an addition to the commissioned officer 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.
2. American Indian, Alaska Native
3. Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander
4. Officer gain data does not contain Unknowns for ethnicity.
5. The data in this table reflect commissioned officers serving as of 30 September 2017.
Rows and columns may not add to totals due to rounding.
Source: Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).