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 USCG’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)
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Officer Accessions
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Officer Corps
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Coast Guard
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DoD
|
Coast Guard
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DoD
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|
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Race/Ethnicity
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|
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White
|
80.1
|
78.6
|
87.0
|
83.8
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Black
|
7.3
|
9.0
|
4.6
|
8.1
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Hispanic
|
6.2
|
4.6
|
4.0
|
3.9
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Other
|
6.4
|
7.8
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4.4
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4.3
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Total
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
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Gender
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|
|
|
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Male
|
74.8
|
80.4
|
87.4
|
85.0
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Female
|
25.2
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19.6
|
12.6
|
15.0
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Total
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
|
100.0
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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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