| | Specialist respondents (n = 3505) | Australian specialist workforce (n = 27,279)c
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n
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n
| % |
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Sex |
Male | 2260 | 65 | 19,681 | 72 |
Female | 1243 | 36 | 7598 | 28 |
Mean age (years)a
| 45 | | 50 | |
Location main work |
Metropolitan | 2899 | 83 | 21,808 | 86 |
Rural | 606 | 17 | 3601 | 14 |
Specialist groupb
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Internal medicine | 762 | 22 | 5706 | 21 |
Pathology | 127 | 4 | 1119 | 4 |
Surgery | 380 | 11 | 4250 | 16 |
Other specialists | 1986 | 57 | 15,306 | 56 |
Mean hours worked/week | 42 | | 44 | |
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aThe number of sample respondents to age was reduced to 3441 due to 64 missing values; sex reduced to 3503 due to 2 missing values; mean hours worked reduced to 3239 due to 266 missing values and specialist group reduced to 3255 due to 250 missing values
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bInternal medicine: cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and hepatology, general medicine, geriatric medicine, haematology, medical oncology, nephrology, respiratory and sleep medicine, rheumatology, other physician. Pathology: anatomical and general pathology. Surgery: general surgery, otolaryngology, plastic, urology, other surgery. Other specialists: diagnostic radiology, other radiology, obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, anaesthesia, psychiatry, emergency medicine, ophthalmology, dermatology, intensive care medicine, rehabilitation medicine, radiation oncology, other specialists not grouped
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cData on the Australian specialist workforce were obtained from the National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS), 2014 [36], except data on Location main place of work, which was obtained from the 2014 Australian Medical Directory dataset (n = 25,409) [24]. The NHWDS included n = 166 specialists whose specialty was general practice under “other specialists”, which is not included as a specialty in the MABEL survey. Further 898 in the NHWDS dataset were missing information about their specialist group
