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Table 2 Characteristics of actively (during the study) working faculty physicians in the medical schools of Ethiopia, Feb–June 2015

From: Survival analysis to measure turnover of the medical education workforce in Ethiopia

Variable

Characteristics

Frequency

Percent

Gender

Male

877

82.8

Female

182

17.2

Date of birth

Prior to 1975

207

19.5

1975–1985

338

31.9

After 1985

501

47.3

Service years

<3

461

43.5

3–6

335

31.6

7–10

152

14.3

11–14

32

3.0

>=15

74

6.9

Educational level

GPs

653

61.7

Specialist/sub-specialist

407

38.3

Academic rank

Lecturers

651

61.4

Assistant professors

354

33.4

Associate professors

45

4.2

Full professors

10

0.9

Total of each variable

1 060

100.0