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Table 1 Description of the student sample

From: Where do students in the health professions want to work?

 

Number

Average age

Female

Married

(de facto relationship)

Have children

Foreign ancestry

Rural background*

Medicine

43

25.2

22 (51%)

6 (14%)

0 (0%)

22 (51%)

10 (23%)

Nursing

46

27.8

38 (83%)

13 (28%)

15 (33%)

8 (17%)

41 (89%)

Allied health

32

25.5

18 (56%)

3 (9%)

4 (13%)

9 (28%)

20 (63%)

  1. *Rural background was defined as town of population less than 100 000.