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[Department of Defense's Efforts to Develop and Implement new
ilitary Service Gnidelines for Assembling and Reporting
Statistical Data on Enlisted Retention]. B-160096. November 17,
1976. 4 pp.
Report to Rep. Les Aspin; by Clifford I. Gould (for H. L.
Krieter, Director, Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.).
Issue Area: Personnel Hanagement and Compensation (300).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Budget Function: General Government: Central Personnel
Eanageme:zt (805).
Organization Concerned: Department of Defense.
Congressional Relevance: Rep. Les Aspin.
The Department of Defense (DOD) has developed new
military service guidelines for assembling and reporting
statistical data on enlisted retention. Findings/Conclusions:
Revised instructions for retention rate reports provide for
three reporting formats: Quarterly Reenlistment and Retention
Rate Report; Quarterly Report on Separation Not Eligible to
Reenlist by Reason Not Eligible; and Semi-Annual Report on
Reenl.stmert and Retention Rates by DOD Occupational Group.
Significant changes in the reporting requirements of the new
instruction include: a personzel retention measure in addition
to a reenlistment measure; more definitive categorizations of
reasons for separations and ineligibilities; and the segmenting
of data by terms of service. There are no specific control
procedures within the statistical compilation process that would
inhibit the manipulation or misrepresentation of statistics. No
audit work has been conducted to verify the accuracy of data or
review the statistical compilation proccdure. Recommendations:
With regard to the potential for manipulating statistics,
reliance should be placed on thce responsible fcr compilation,
but such reliance should not be without a reasonable measure of
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