Migration as a form of workforce attrition: a nine-country study of pharmacists

Table 1 Sample characteristics

	Sample (N = 791)			Gender (N = 783)				Age (N = 784)	Intention to migrate within next 5 years (N = 786)
Countries	N sampled (N = 974)*	N respondents (N = 791)	% of dataset	Female		Male		Mean	No		Short-term migration		Long term migration
				N (478)	Sample %	N (305)	Sample %		N (373)	Sample %	N (159)	Sample %	N (254)	Sample %
Australia	405	334	42.2	222	67.3	108	32.7	22.2	157	47.3	95	28.6	80	24.1
Bangladesh	N/A	58	7.3	14	24.1	44	75.9	22.8	6	10.5	15	26.3	36	63.2
Croatia	110	96	12.1	87	90.6	9	9.4	22.5	82	86.3	5	5.3	8	8.4
Egypt	117	95	12.0	31	33.0	63	67.0	20.7	19	20.2	13	13.8	62	66.0
Nepal	33	31	3.9	12	38.7	19	61.3	23.1	8	25.8	2	6.5	21	67.7
Portugal	118	55	7.0	35	64.8	19	35.2	23.3	32	58.2	13	23.6	10	18.2
Singapore	81	60	7.6	50	83.3	10	16.7	23.0	38	63.3	6	10.0	16	26.7
Slovenia	65	25	3.2	18	72.0	7	28.0	22.4	22	88.0	3	12.0	0	Nil
Zimbabwe	45	37	4.7	9	25.7	26	74.3	23.3	9	24.3	7	18.9	21	56.8
Sample means					61.0		39.0	22.3		47.5		20.2		32.3

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