military: US Military Demographics

Description

This dataset contains demographic information on every member of the US armed forces including gender, race, and rank.

Usage

military

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1,414,593 observations on the following 6 variables.

grade: The status of the service member as enlisted officer or warrant officer.
branch: The branch of the armed forces: air force, army, marine corps, navy.
gender: Whether the service member is female or male.
race: The race identified by the service member: ami/aln (american indian/alaskan native), asian, black, multi (multi-ethnic), p/i (pacific islander), unk (unknown), or white.
hisp: Whether a service member identifies with being hispanic (TRUE) or not (FALSE).
rank: The numeric rank of the service member (higher number indicates higher rank).

Details

The branches covered by this data set include the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Demographic information on the Coast Guard is contained in the original data set but has not been included here.

Examples

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library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(forcats)

# Proportion of females in military branches
military %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = branch, fill = gender)) +
  geom_bar(position = "fill") +
  labs(
    x = "Branch", y = "Proportion", fill = "Gender",
    title = "Proportion of females in military branches"
  )

# Proportion of army officer females across ranks
military %>%
  filter(
    grade == "officer",
    branch == "army"
  ) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x = factor(rank), fill = fct_rev(gender))) +
  geom_bar(position = "fill") +
  labs(
    x = "Rank", y = "Proportion", fill = "Gender",
    title = "Proportion of army officer females across ranks"
  )
# }
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