Table 1 Summary statistics for the variables included in the models between 1999 and 2010
From: A labor requirements function for sizing the health workforce
Variable | General surgery | Internal medicine | Anatomical pathology | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Std. Dev. | Min. | Max. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min. | Max. | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min. | Max. | |
PHY | 13 | 0.4 | 1 | 73 | 15 | 0.5 | 1 | 109 | 4 | 0.2 | 1 | 25 |
ROO | 48 | 1.6 | 3 | 229 | 47 | 1.6 | 2 | 305 | 75 | 2.5 | 9 | 229 |
OUT | 8 989 | 226.2 | 340 | 39 228 | 5 510 | 161.3 | 70 | 31 730 | – | – | – | – |
INP | 1890 | 43.3 | 0 | 6 564 | 1862 | 53.7 | 0 | 11 499 | – | – | – | – |
SUR | 1847 | 47 | 0 | 7 785 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
DIA | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 22 233 | 1 237.7 | 57 | 289 038 |
Number of hospitals (i) | 112 | 128 | 55 | |||||||||
Number of years (t) | 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||
Number of observations (n) | 956 | 1 014 | 469 | |||||||||