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Women at Sea: Unplanned Losses and Accession Planning
March 1, 1999
The Deputy of Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower and Personnel asked CNA to study various issues related to maintaining fleet readiness while expanding the role of women in the operating forces. First, we studied the pattern of losses of personnel from ships by gender and explored policies aimed at reducing them. Second, we updated a CNA planning model that links women's accession plans, bunk plans, and a variety of personnel policy parameters. Recommendations include maintaining a presence of female Chief Petty Officers of a least 5 percent of the female crew in order to reduce the level of unplanned losses of junior women, and increasing A-School proportion of female accessions in order to improve retention of female personnel.
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Final Report: Pregnancy Analyses for the Navy Nondeployability Study
September 1, 1996
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.
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Pregnancy Rates for Enlisted Navy Women: How Do They Compare With U.S. Rates?
August 1, 1996
There is considerable interest in how pregnancy rates for Navy sailors compare with overall pregnancy rates in the United States. The short answer is that Navy rates are considerably below the U.S. rates. Somewhat less directly, we also conclude that the marital status patterns for pregnant sailors probably do not differ from those in the United States overall.
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