Table C-4.  Non-Prior Service (NPS) Selected Reserve Enlisted Gains, FY19: 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 2,019 9,341 5,848 7,573 1,036 112 25,929 17,208
   Females 359 2,740 2,386 4,063 130 30 9,708 5,485
   Total 2,378 12,081 8,234 11,636 1,166 142 35,637 22,693
   Percent Females 15.10 22.68 28.98 34.92 11.15 21.13 27.24 24.17
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 678 3,156 2,014 2,657 205 19 8,729 5,848
   Females 178 1,315 1,062 1,709 67 16 4,347 2,555
   Total 856 4,471 3,076 4,366 272 35 13,076 8,403
   Percent Females 20.79 29.41 34.53 39.14 24.63 45.71 33.24 30.41
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 9 76 38 29 0 26 178 123
   Females 4 25 25 21 0 21 96 54
   Total 13 101 63 50 0 47 274 177
   Percent Females 30.77 24.75 39.68 42.00 ----- 44.68 35.04 30.51
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 456 2,441 1,301 1,331 0 116 5,645 4,198
   Females 9 68 34 21 0 16 148 111
   Total 465 2,509 1,335 1,352 0 132 5,793 4,309
   Percent Females 1.94 2.71 2.55 1.55 ----- 12.12 2.55 2.58
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 445 1,864 844 668 0 227 4,048 3,153
   Females 89 602 463 522 0 97 1,773 1,154
   Total 534 2,466 1,307 1,190 0 324 5,821 4,307
   Percent Females 16.67 24.41 35.42 43.87 ----- 29.94 30.46 26.79
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 225 1,011 478 407 1 46 2,168 1,714
   Females 60 527 414 428 0 8 1,437 1,001
   Total 285 1,538 892 835 1 54 3,605 2,715
   Percent Females 21.05 34.27 46.41 51.26 0 14.81 39.86 36.87
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 3,832 17,889 10,523 12,665 1,242 546 46,697 32,244
   Females 699 5,277 4,384 6,764 197 188 17,509 10,360
   Total 4,531 23,166 14,907 19,429 1,439 734 64,206 42,604
   Percent Females 15.43 22.78 29.41 34.81 13.69 25.61 27.27 24.32
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 7.79 36.03 22.55 29.21 4.00 0.43 100 66.37
   Females 3.70 28.22 24.58 41.85 1.34 0.31 100 56.50
   Total 6.67 33.90 23.11 32.65 3.27 0.40 100 63.68
ARMY RESERVE                
   Males 7.77 36.16 23.07 30.44 2.35 0.22 100 67.00
   Females 4.09 30.25 24.43 39.31 1.54 0.37 100 58.78
   Total 6.55 34.19 23.52 33.39 2.08 0.27 100 64.26
NAVAL RESERVE                
   Males 5.06 42.70 21.35 16.29 0 14.61 100 69.10
   Females 4.17 26.04 26.04 21.88 0 21.88 100 56.25
   Total 4.74 36.86 22.99 18.25 0 17.15 100 64.60
MARINE CORPS RESERVE                
   Males 8.08 43.24 23.05 23.58 0 2.05 100 74.37
   Females 6.08 45.95 22.97 14.19 0 10.81 100 75.00
   Total 8.03 43.31 23.05 23.34 0 2.28 100 74.38
AIR NATIONAL GUARD                
   Males 10.99 46.05 20.85 16.50 0 5.61 100 77.89
   Females 5.02 33.95 26.11 29.44 0 5.47 100 65.09
   Total 9.17 42.36 22.45 20.44 0 5.57 100 73.99
AIR FORCE RESERVE                
   Males 10.38 46.63 22.05 18.77 0.05 2.12 100 79.06
   Females 4.18 36.67 28.81 29.78 0 0.56 100 69.66
   Total 7.91 42.66 24.74 23.16 0.03 1.50 100 75.31
TOTAL DoD                
   Males 8.21 38.31 22.53 27.12 2.66 1.17 100 69.05
   Females 3.99 30.14 25.04 38.63 1.13 1.07 100 59.17
   Total 7.06 36.08 23.22 30.26 2.24 1.14 100 66.36
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 2018 and 30 September 2019. This addition can reflect a new accession, a movement from another component, or a return 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 2018-September 2019 average.  Military data are provided by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC).