Table C-4.  Non-Prior Service (NPS) Selected Reserve Enlisted Gains, FY18: 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 1,767 8,267 5,223 7,398 540 44 23,239 15,257
   Females 273 2,305 1,938 3,540 51 8 8,115 4,516
   Total 2,040 10,572 7,161 10,938 591 52 31,354 19,773
   Percent Females 13.38 21.80 27.06 32.36 8.63 15.38 25.88 22.84
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 557 2,551 1,546 2,328 32 49 7,063 4,654
   Females 144 993 808 1,341 21 23 3,330 1,945
   Total 701 3,544 2,354 3,669 53 72 10,393 6,599
   Percent Females 20.54 28.02 34.32 36.55 39.62 31.94 32.04 29.47
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 55 447 312 192 15 277 1,298 814
   Females 19 126 105 65 0 91 406 250
   Total 74 573 417 257 15 368 1,704 1,064
   Percent Females 25.68 21.99 25.18 25.29 0 24.73 23.83 23.50
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 466 2,369 1,253 1,279 0 164 5,531 4,088
   Females 13 58 29 16 0 11 127 100
   Total 479 2,427 1,282 1,295 0 175 5,658 4,188
   Percent Females 2.71 2.39 2.26 1.24 ----- 6.29 2.24 2.39
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 367 1,602 717 534 1 201 3,422 2,686
   Females 76 571 358 415 1 67 1,488 1,005
   Total 443 2,173 1,075 949 2 268 4,910 3,691
   Percent Females 17.16 26.28 33.30 43.73 50.00 25.00 30.31 27.23
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 198 893 476 313 0 39 1,919 1,567
   Females 47 408 340 347 0 9 1,151 795
   Total 245 1,301 816 660 0 48 3,070 2,362
   Percent Females 19.18 31.36 41.67 52.58 ----- 18.75 37.49 33.66
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 3,410 16,129 9,527 12,044 588 774 42,472 29,066
   Females 572 4,461 3,578 5,724 73 209 14,617 8,611
   Total 3,982 20,590 13,105 17,768 661 983 57,089 37,677
   Percent Females 14.36 21.67 27.30 32.22 11.04 21.26 25.60 22.85
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 7.60 35.57 22.48 31.83 2.32 0.19 100 65.65
   Females 3.36 28.40 23.88 43.62 0.63 0.10 100 55.65
   Total 6.51 33.72 22.84 34.89 1.88 0.17 100 63.06
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 7.89 36.12 21.89 32.96 0.45 0.69 100 65.89
   Females 4.32 29.82 24.26 40.27 0.63 0.69 100 58.41
   Total 6.74 34.10 22.65 35.30 0.51 0.69 100 63.49
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 4.24 34.44 24.04 14.79 1.16 21.34 100 62.71
   Females 4.68 31.03 25.86 16.01 0 22.41 100 61.58
   Total 4.34 33.63 24.47 15.08 0.88 21.60 100 62.44
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 8.43 42.83 22.65 23.12 0 2.97 100 73.91
   Females 10.24 45.67 22.83 12.60 0 8.66 100 78.74
   Total 8.47 42.90 22.66 22.89 0 3.09 100 74.02
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 10.72 46.81 20.95 15.60 0.03 5.87 100 78.49
   Females 5.11 38.37 24.06 27.89 0.07 4.50 100 67.54
   Total 9.02 44.26 21.89 19.33 0.04 5.46 100 75.17
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 10.32 46.53 24.80 16.31 0 2.03 100 81.66
   Females 4.08 35.45 29.54 30.15 0 0.78 100 69.07
   Total 7.98 42.38 26.58 21.50 0 1.56 100 76.94
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 8.03 37.98 22.43 28.36 1.38 1.82 100 68.44
   Females 3.91 30.52 24.48 39.16 0.50 1.43 100 58.91
   Total 6.98 36.07 22.96 31.12 1.16 1.72 100 66.00
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 2017 and 30 September 2018. 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 2017-September 2018 average.  Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).