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Work Force Statistics:
The Changed Face of Army |
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These Excel Spreadsheets
show occupational changes in the total Army civilian labor force by job series for 4th Qtr FY89 through 4th Qtr FY01 and for 4th Qtr FY00 through 4th Qtr FY01.
These Excel Spreadsheets show occupational changes for MACOMs from 4th Qtr FY89 through 4th Qtr FY01.
For further information on the above documents, contact Marsha Popp at Marsha.Popp@asamra.hoffman.army.mil
The data for the above information was obtained using the
Workforce Analysis Support System (WASS).
WASS enables users to analyze data on civilians from 1974 to the present. It contains over 8.9 million strength records and 20.6 million transaction records. It has analysis capabilities that range from counts and averages, to analysis of trends and regression. Users can also conduct analysis of other databases (e.g., survey data) using the resident analytic capabilities. The WASS is a particularly useful tool for conducting in-depth evaluations of workforce behaviors over long periods to see how they vary by time periods and/or other dimensions e.g., retirement age and years of service, actual number of retirements from varying population densities of retirement eligibility.
Other tools that might be helpful in performing Army civilian workforce analysis are CIVFORS, IFS,
and the FY01 Army Attitude Survey .
CIVFORS (Civilian Forecasting System) enables users to project strength, accessions, losses, and losses by type (e.g., retirements). Projections can be generated with and without targets (i.e., strength goals). Targets used for projections can be defined in a number of different ways. They can be based on budgetary constraints or other constraints based on what is known about the future state. Users can generate projections to determine if they are going to meet targets under various "what if" scenarios. There are two levels of CIVFORS. One is the Department of Army level and the other the Installation level. As a workforce-planning tool, CIVFORS helps determine what to expect by generating multi-dimensional projections such as, projected vacancies by occupation and grade and installation; or Army-wide. A recent addition to the projection capabilities is the web-enabled Flexible CIVFORS. It enables users to build models that are more focused and tailored to specific areas of concern such as, projected vacancies of hard-to-fill occupations turnover in specific regions by occupation and grade. The Flexible CIVFORS helps users build their models by enabling them to use a customized data-mining tool that provides them guidance through a sequence of analytic decisions.
The IFS (Intern Forecasting System) projects the number of interns that need to be hired at the entry grades GS-5 and 7 to fill behind projected journeyman level vacancies at the GS-9 and 11. The IFS projects intern requirements for the career program population of the U. S. Army civilians working in support of the military functions such as Logistics, Transportation, Comptroller, Scientists and Engineers, IT, Intelligence. The required intern projections generated from the model help Army plan ahead for its civilian resourcing and training needs.
Current system operational environment: The WASS and all of the CIVFORS projection tools are web-enabled, interactive systems. For more information on these tools please contact Dr. Engin Orel-Crosby, at
Engin.Crosby@asamra.hoffman.army.mil
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