Navy Enlisted Classification Requirements and Inventories

This research memorandum presents information on Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) inventories and assignments between 1979 and 1987, and on NEC requirements between 1984 and 1987. It also examines three ratios: the ratio of matched assignments to inventory, the ratio of inventory to requirements, and the ratio of assignments to requirements. The first ratio measures the rate of NEC utilization; the second measures the fraction of requirements that could be filled; and the third measures the fraction of requirements that are being filled. At the aggregate level, the paper discusses values of these variables and ratios in each year and changes in them over time. At the NEC level, it presents distributions of NECs across values of the variables and shifts in the distributions over time.