Grandchildren progress report - October 21

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, October 21, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	617	602	1219
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	22	9	31
% Sample Completed	--	--	66.7
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			78.5
Total Grandchildren Sample B (including new)	--	--	22278
New Grandchildren Added	679	671	1350
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	7876	7750	15626
Birth Dates Added	7831	7715	15546
Death Dates Added	7113	7054	14167
Living Grandchildren	63	52	115

Sample B = 1827               Total Sample (A & B) = 2826

Here is what we've done so far on the pilot project.

PILOT RESULTS
Number of soldiers completed	79
Number of children	488
Number of grands	1215
Number of male grands	597
Number of female grands	612
Number of grands with 1930 (N = 1106 because 109 of 1215 were dead before 1930)	721 (65%)
Number of grands with 1940 (N= 1059 because a total of 156 were dead by 1940)	780 (74%)
Number of male grands living/old enough at time of draft	490
Number of male grands found with WWII draft cards+	450 (92%)
Number male greats*	1263
Number female greats*	1192
Number living greats	646 (26%)
Number eligible male greats with WWII draft cards (N=398)	367 (92%)
Total time spent (for 77 soldiers: 1930/40, draft cards, and greats’ birth and death)	21183 minutes

+Includes 7 draft cards that didn’t have H/W

*For the first three soldiers completed, number of great grandchildren was not tracked.

 

Total time 21183 minutes

So the time breaks down into one of the following – depending on how you want to look at it:

275 minutes/soldier

43.4 minutes/child

17.4 minutes/grand

8.5 minutes/great**

 

** Number for a subset of soldiers whose time and number of great grandchildren tracked.