DRAFT_LOTTERY
Selective Service System Lottery Numbers

DRAFT_LOTTERY is a dataset directory which contains the numbers assigned to each birthday, for the Selective Service System lotteries for 1970 through 1976.

An analysis of the results for the 1970 lottery showed that a bias in the results, so that people born later in the year tended to have lower lottery numbers, and hence a greater likelihood of being drafted.

Month	Average Draft Number
January	201
February	203
March	225
April	203
May	207
June	195
July	181
August	173
September	157
October	182
November	148
December	121

On the other hand, we can also analyze the table by day of the week. Arbitrarily assuming that January 1 was Sunday (it's pointless to be precise in this case, since the first lottery included several years), we have the following breakdown:

Weekday	Average Draft Number
Sunday	181
Monday	187
Tuesday	179
Wednesday	204
Thursday	176
Friday	164
Saturday	195

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

CENSUS, a dataset directory which contains US census data;

Datasets:

• lottery_1970.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1970, for men born between 1944 and 1950. The highest number called was 195.
• lottery_1971.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1971, for men born in 1951. The highest number called was 125.
• lottery_1972.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1972, for men born in 1952. The highest number called was 95.
• lottery_1973.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1973, for men born in 1953. The highest number called was 95.
• lottery_1974.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1974, for men born in 1954. The highest number called was 95.
• lottery_1975.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1975, for men born in 1955. The highest number called was 95.
• lottery_1976.txt, lottery numbers to be used for the draft in 1976, for men born in 1956. The highest number called was 95.

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