Male and female marriage rates of AC enlisted personnel and civilian comparison groups, by age, FY11
Population Representation in the Military Services: Fiscal Year 2011 Summary Report
Figure 9 shows the marriage rates for the AC officer corps. While male officers are considerably more likely to be married than their college-educated civilian counterparts, the same is not true for female officers, where the marriage rates are roughly similar. There is also an interesting difference in the marriage rates by age for enlisted personnel versus officers:
1. Since officers enter after completing college, they enter the military about 4 years older on average than enlisted personnel.
2. Both officers and enlisted personnel are predominately single when they enter military service, but officers who have completed college are about 4 years older at entrance into the military than are enlisted personnel who generally enter after completing high school.
If we compare the marriage rates by age for 25-, 30-, and 35-year-old men, we find:
65.8, 75.4, and 82.8 percent of enlisted men are married
34.4, 68.4, and 84.7 percent of male officers are married.
In short, until personnel are in their mid-30s when marriage rates converge for officers
and enlisted personnel, enlisted personnel are more likely to be married than are officers.
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