I__. - International Military Testing Association

Question I: Do you consider such information on military assignments to be a necessary part of
the qualification test?
Question 2: Has AIL provided you with any details about military assignments which you did
not know before?
Question 3: Are you interested in further information?
Table 2 shows the response frequencies for the response categories.
Table 2
Response frequencies of the acceptance poll (yes = +/ no = -/ partly = 0; in percent)
EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
Question total 1) 2) 3) 4)
1)
2)
3)
4)
+ - 0 + - 0 + - 0 + -- 0 + .- 0
1 86 6 8 67 22 11 85 6 9 88 3 9 92 4 4
2 57 9 34 82 9 39 57 9 44 56 8 46 34 13 31
3 56 26 18 55 29 I6 54 26 20 59 25 16 54 28 18
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without school-leaving certificate of secondary-level primary school
.
wtth school-leaving certificate of secondary-level primary school
lower secondary school-leaving certificate
secondary school graduation
The results of the acceptance poll reveal that information on military assignments provided by
AIL is considered to be necessary by the majority. The higher the education lcvcl the more
widespread is this opinion.
AIL offers onIy basic information on selected military assignments, but its information content
is detailed enough for more than 50 % of the respondents to gain additional information they
didn’t have before. In contrast to surveys which point to a monotonic rciutiortship bctwecn
knowledge of military service and education level, there is no ascertainable difference in this
regard.
Regardless of education level, more than 50 % of all respondents wished lo obtain more
information about the military assignments presented. Bearing in mind previous surveys looking
into the attitudes towards military service of young men liable to military service which showed
a growing rejection with increasing education levels, this result was somewhat unexpected.
Despite increasingly negative attitudes towards military service, interest in obtaining information
does not decline with higher education levels.
In conclusion, the results of the acceptance poll show that
- the respondents do not have much information on specific military assignments,
- the respondents are keen to obtain additional information,
- the majority of respondents welcome information on military assignments.
Results
The opinions expressed on the 25 AIL items in the test sample wcrc analyzed with a view to
answering the following questions:
(1) Which military assignments arouse greatest interest and which tend to appear uninteresting’?
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