Quarterly docket report
State of the Clearance Docket, Q4 2003
Decided cases
181
49 granted · 132 denied
Grant rate
27%
49 of 181 decided · Q3 2003: 43%
Statement of Reasons to decision
229 days
median across 129 cases stating both dates
The quarter in brief
DOHA judges decided 181 industrial security clearance cases in Q4 2003, granting 27% of them. That is 16 points lower than Q3 2003 (43% of 150). A year earlier, Q4 2002 recorded 28% of 113. Personal Conduct was the most common concern, appearing in 85 decided cases. The typical case decided this quarter took 229 days from Statement of Reasons to decision, 9 days longer than the prior quarter.
Month by month
Outcomes by concern
| Concern | Cases | Granted | Denied | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E · Personal Conduct | 85 | 13 | 72 | |
| F · Financial Considerations | 58 | 8 | 50 | |
| J · Criminal Conduct | 53 | 8 | 45 | |
| B · Foreign Influence | 50 | 25 | 25 | |
| H · Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse | 30 | 5 | 25 | |
| G · Alcohol Consumption | 21 | 3 | 18 | |
| C · Foreign Preference | 18 | 9 | 9 | |
| D · Sexual Behavior | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| I · Psychological Conditions | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| L · Outside Activities | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| M · Use of Information Technology | 1 | 0 | 1 |
- Cases
- 85
- Granted
- 13
- Denied
- 72
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 58
- Granted
- 8
- Denied
- 50
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 53
- Granted
- 8
- Denied
- 45
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 50
- Granted
- 25
- Denied
- 25
- Grant rate
H · Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse
- Cases
- 30
- Granted
- 5
- Denied
- 25
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 21
- Granted
- 3
- Denied
- 18
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 18
- Granted
- 9
- Denied
- 9
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 3
- Granted
- 0
- Denied
- 3
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 2
- Granted
- 0
- Denied
- 2
- Grant rate
- Cases
- 1
- Granted
- 0
- Denied
- 1
- Grant rate
M · Use of Information Technology
- Cases
- 1
- Granted
- 0
- Denied
- 1
- Grant rate
Time from Statement of Reasons to decision
- Median: 229 days, measured on 129 cases stating both dates.
- Prior quarter: 220 days, measured on 97 cases.
Full breakdowns are on measured timelines.
Hearing and written record
| Path | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| Decided after a live hearing | 125 | |
| Decided on the written record | 40 |
Decided after a live hearing
- Cases
- 125
- Grant rate
Decided on the written record
- Cases
- 40
- Grant rate
Representation
| Representation | Cases | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|
| Represented by a lawyer | 39 | |
| Self-represented | 142 |
Represented by a lawyer
- Cases
- 39
- Grant rate
Self-represented
- Cases
- 142
- Grant rate
An association, not proof of cause: the groups being compared differ in many ways.
Cite this report
CASE, State of the Clearance Docket, Q4 2003 (clearancesearchengine.com/reports/quarterly/2003-q4)
How these numbers are measured
The population is decided hearing-level industrial security clearance decisions dated 2003-10-01 through 2003-12-31. Appeal Board decisions are counted separately and never mixed into the hearing figures. † marks a group built on fewer than 20 decided cases, too few to generalize, and a case raising several concerns counts under each of them. Figures are computed live from the record as it stands today, so decisions DOHA publishes late are added to their own quarter automatically. Definitions and checks are on the methodology page.
Reading the statistics
- Granted = access granted or continued; Denied = denied or revoked.
- Grant rate = granted ÷ (granted + denied).
- † marks figures based on fewer than 20 cases, too few to be reliable.
- Hovering any rate shows its statistical range (a 95% confidence interval).
- Figures are descriptive counts over decided, public DOHA ISCR decisions, never predictions or assessments of any pending case.
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