Final Report: Pregnancy Analyses for the Navy Nondeployability Study

In this Navy study of nondeployable personnel, we undertook several analyses of pregnancy for enlisted sailors. These analyses are not definitive because the navy still lacks individual-level data on the pregnancy status of sailors. The Bureau of Naval Personnel is working hard to obtain reliable and complete information on the pregnancy status of enlisted sailors. We both hope and anticipate that such data will be available soon. During the course of the study, we developed a method for extrapolating pregnancy rates based on the available information. We are sufficiently confident of our estimated data to expect that, when actual data become available, our estimates will show the trends and be close to actual rates. We a re not sufficiently confident of our method, however, to say that our estimates will replicate the actual data.