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Chapter 7:


Race/Ethnicity and Gender

The USCG percentage of Whites was slightly higher than the overall DoD rate for officer accessions (80 and 79 percent, respectively) and officers (87 and 84 percent, respectively), as shown in Table 7.7. By gender, the USCG officer accessions were slightly more likely to be female than were DoD officer accessions (25 and 20 percent, respectively), but members of the USCGÂ’s officer corps were slightly more likely to be male than were DoD officers (87 and 85 percent, respectively).

Table 7.7. Race/Ethnicity and Gender of FY 2000 USCG
and DoD Active Component Officer Accessions and Officer Corps (Percent)
  Officer Accessions   Officer Corps
 
Coast Guard
DoD
Coast Guard
DoD
         
Race/Ethnicity
 
 
 
 
White
80.1
78.6
87.0
83.8
Black
7.3
9.0
4.6
8.1
Hispanic
6.2
4.6
4.0
3.9
Other
6.4
7.8
4.4
4.3
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Gender
 
 
 
 
Male
74.8
80.4
87.4
85.0
Female
25.2
19.6
12.6
15.0
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
Percentages do not include "Unknown" data.
Also see Appendix Tables B-32 (Active Component Officer Accessions and Officer Corps by Race/Ethnicity and Service), B-34 (Active Component Officer Accessions by Race/Ethnicity and Service), E-19 (Coast Guard Active Component Officer Accessions and Officer Corps by Race/Ethnicity and Service).




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