Library of Documents

Category: Demographics

» A Profile of Women Veterans Today. Rethink Veterans: Who is the Woman Veteran?/April 2012 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group's profile of women veterans includes demographic facts, their post-military health issues, and a synopsis of the health care women veterans can expect at VA health care facilities.
» America's Women Veterans: Military Service History and VA Benefit Utilization Statistics (November 23, 2011): This Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) report chronicles the history of women in the military and as veterans. It also profiles women veterans and how they utilized benefits and services in 2009 and examines how they might use VA in the future.
» Economic Brief Number 25: Rural Veterans at a Glance (November 2013): Veteran demographics are changing over time. Currently, the number and percentage of women veterans are steadily increasing, more than doubling in rural counties between 1992 and 2011 from 3 to 7 percent. Rural veteran racial-ethnic diversity also increased over the same time period, from 6 to 10 percent.
» Fact Sheet: Women Veteran Population/October 2015 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Public Affairs Media Relations publishes an annual update of the total number of women veterans by state and territory.
» Fact Sheet: Women Veteran Population/November 2, 2017 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics posts an update, usually in spring of the year following the close of data collection, of their “Women Veteran Population” fact sheet.
» Profile of Women Veterans: 2014 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs released the "Profile of Women Veterans: 2014" in April 2016. The briefing includes gender comparisons within the military as well as comparisons of women veterans with women in the civilian population. Data for this analysis are sourced from the 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), and VA’s Veteran Population Projection Model (VetPop).
» U.S. Census Bureau Report Number ACSBR/15-03/August 30, 2017: Characteristics of Female Veterans-An Analytic View Across Age-Cohorts: 2015: Female veterans comprise a small subpopulation of both veterans and civilian women. Per the U.S. Census Bureau, this group of women are often an under-studied population.
» VA National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS): Need veteran statistics, reports, and maps? The National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS) serves as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clearinghouse to collect, validate, analyze, and disseminate key statistics on the U.S. veteran population and VA programs to support planning, analysis, and decision-making activities.
» Veteran Population Projections: 2013 to 2043 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Actuary publishes a quick-reference summary of veteran population projections. This summary is based on the VA "Population Projections Model VetPop2014."
» Veteran Population Projections: FY2010 to FY2040 (Department of Veterans Affairs): The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Actuary publishes a quick-reference summary of veteran population projections. This summary is based on the VA "Veteran Populations Model VetPop2011."