What This Field Means
Whether the record is counted as a distinct U.S. military unit rather than an alias, excluded organization, or non-unit.
This determines whether the record can contribute one distinct organization to a unit census. It allows the system to retain aliases, exclusions, and rejected candidates for transparency without counting them as additional units.
How to Read It Correctly
Eligibility does not mean the unit belongs in every historical or current count. A record can be eligible as a distinct unit yet fall outside a particular census date, service, status, or organizational bucket.
Example
Eligible means the identity can be counted in an applicable unit census.
Technical Specification
The database column is [USMIL-Unit].[Unit].[CensusEligibility]. Required census-admission disposition. The current table uses four stored values and does not enforce them with a column check constraint.
Use one of the actual stored dispositions defined on this page. The conclusion must follow the unit-definition, identity-resolution, and scope rules; it must not be assigned merely because a military-looking name was found.
| Property | Definition or current value |
|---|---|
| Database column | CensusEligibility |
| Column order | 9 |
| SQL data type | nvarchar(64) |
| Kind of information | Finite census disposition |
| Cardinality | One stored value per Unit row. |
| Required | Yes |
| Database default | No database default |
| Key or relationship | None |
| Database check constraint | ([CurrentStatus]=N'Planned' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Status unknown' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Historical' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Inactive' OR [CurrentStatus]=N'Current') |
| Live population | 9341 of 9341 Unit records (100%) |
| Distinct nonblank values in the live table | 4 |
| Live profile measured | September 2, 2026, 20:43 UTC |
Allowed Values and Definitions
This field has a finite vocabulary. The table below lists every value physically stored in the live Unit table, explains it in ordinary language, gives its exact technical meaning, and shows current use.
| Stored value | Plain-language definition | Technical definition | Live Unit records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eligible | The organization is counted as a distinct unit in every census for which its time and status qualify. | Canonical identity passes the unit-definition and scope gates; membership still depends on the selected census date and bucket. | 9222 |
| Not eligible – duplicate alias | This is another name or occurrence of a unit already counted elsewhere. | Resolves to an existing canonical UnitID and must not increment the census. | 72 |
| Excluded | The identity may be retained for context, but it is outside the applicable U.S. military-unit count. | Explicit scope exclusion; the record remains preserved without contributing to eligible census membership. | 27 |
| Ineligible | The record does not qualify as a separately countable unit. | Fails a unit-census admission rule, such as non-unit status or insufficient individual identity. | 20 |
Missing, Unknown, and Conflicting Information
This column cannot be NULL in the Unit table. When the underlying fact is incomplete, the record must use an allowed explicit disposition or a supported evidence-derived statement. Required storage does not mean that every historical fact is known, and it never authorizes a guessed value.
Excluded, Ineligible, and Not eligible – duplicate alias are affirmative dispositions with different meanings. None of them is interchangeable with missing data.
Connections to Other Fields
- Unit Identity Class — The kind of independently recognizable military identity represented by the record, such as a unit, command, formation, or task organization.
- Unit Independence — Whether the unit acts as an independent command or as a subordinate part of another organization.
- Command Status — Whether the organization has its own command identity and what kind of command it is.
- Unit Confidence — How certain the guide is that the unit identity and its major claims are correct.
- Current Status — Whether the unit is currently operating, belongs to history, was formally inactivated, is planned, or has an unresolved present status.