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Table 6 Distribution of combined education of parents with preferred location of future practice

From: The relevance of educational attainments of parents of medical students for health workforce planning: data from Guiné-Bissau

Combined education of both parents

Student wants to practice

Capital city (n = 29)

Elsewhere (n = 59)

One of the parents did not complete secondary education

51.7% (n = 15)

66.1% (n = 39)

One of the parents did not complete post-secondary education

6.9% (n = 2)

6.9% (n = 11)

Both parents have some level of complete post-secondary education

41.4% (n = 12)

15.3% (n = 9)

  1. Chi-square p = 0.018