Identifying Geographical Areas using Machine Learning for Enrolling Women in the Canadian Armed Forces

Ryuichi Ueno, Peter Boyd, Dragos Calitoiu

2021

Abstract

To improve the visibility of military service as a career option for women, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) can tailor marketing campaigns to geographical areas and demographics within Canada that have historically high enrollment of women. To aid in this recruitment strategy, a logistic regression model was developed using historical recruiting data. The score obtained was used to rank Canadian postal codes and to identify the ones with the highest potential for recruiting of women. Additional demographic filtering was applied using marketing segments provided by a vendor. The final top 10% postal codes with the highest probability of women enrollment were clustered based on the collective social media behaviour of each postal code and was binned using the distance to the nearest recruiting centre. Several social media outlets were observed to be of interest, among them YouTube and Snapchat appear as viable options to reach women with a high probability of CAF enrollment.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ueno R., Boyd P. and Calitoiu D. (2021). Identifying Geographical Areas using Machine Learning for Enrolling Women in the Canadian Armed Forces.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-485-5, pages 307-316. DOI: 10.5220/0010186703070316

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores21,
author={Ryuichi Ueno and Peter Boyd and Dragos Calitoiu},
title={Identifying Geographical Areas using Machine Learning for Enrolling Women in the Canadian Armed Forces},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2021},
pages={307-316},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010186703070316},
isbn={978-989-758-485-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Identifying Geographical Areas using Machine Learning for Enrolling Women in the Canadian Armed Forces
SN - 978-989-758-485-5
AU - Ueno R.
AU - Boyd P.
AU - Calitoiu D.
PY - 2021
SP - 307
EP - 316
DO - 10.5220/0010186703070316