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Table 1 Characteristics of responding GPs

From: Widening access to medicine may improve general practitioner recruitment in deprived and rural communities: survey of GP origins and current place of work

Characteristic

No. ( %, 95 % CI) of responding GPs

No. ( %, 95 % CI) of GPs in Scotland

N = 801a

N = 4907 for age and sex, N = 4863 for current practiceb

Gender

  

   Male

413 (51.5, 48.0 to 55.1)

2384 (48.6, 47.2 to 50.0)

   Female

383 (47.8, 44.3 to 51.3)

2523 (51.4, 50.0 to 52.8)

   Missing

5 (0.6, 2.3 to 15.3)

-

Age

  

   25–40 years

164 (20.5, 17.8 to 23.5)

1736 (35.4, 34.0 to 36.7)

   41–55 years

492 (61.4, 57.9 to 64.8)

2381 (48.5, 47.1 to 49.9)

   56–75 years

145 (18.1, 15.5 to 21.0)

790 (16.1, 15.1 to 17.2)

   Missing

-

-

Graduation year

  

   1970–79

180 (22.5, 19.7 to 25.6)

n/a

   1980–89

375 (46.8, 43.3 to 50.3)

 

   1990–99

194 (24.2, 21.3 to 27.4)

 

   2000–05

49 (6.1, 4.61 to 8.1)

 

   Missing

3 (3.7, 0.9 to 11.8)

 

Socioeconomic status at medical school entry

  

   NS-SEC 1 (higher managerial/professional)

611 (76.3, 73.2 to 79.2)

n/a

   NS-SEC 2 (intermediate occupations)

21 (2.6, 1.7 to 4.1)

 

   NS-SEC 3 (small employers and self-employed)

56 (7.0, 5.4 to 9.0)

 

   NS-SEC 4 (lower supervisory and technical)

63 (7.9, 6.1 to 10.0)

 

   NS-SEC 5 (semi-routine and routine)

34 (4.2, 3.0 to 5.9)

 

   Missing

16 (2.0, 1.2 to 3.3)

 

Urban–rural classification at medical school entry

  

   Scotland – city

219 (27.3, 24.3 to 30.6)

n/a

   Scotland – urban

134 (16.7, 14.3 to 19.5)

 

   Scotland – accessible

95 (11.9, 9.7 to 14.4)

 

   Scotland – remote

42 (5.2, 3.9 to 7.1)

 

   Other UK

183 (22.9, 20.0 to 26.0)

 

   Non-UK

37 (4.6, 3.3 to 6.4

 

   Missing

91 (11.4, 9.3 to 13.8)

 

Current practice (n = 801)

  

   Remote practice

105 (13.1, 10.9 to 15.7)

643 (13.2, 12.3 to 14.2)

   Deprived practice

67 (8.4, 6.6 to 10.6)

301 (6.2, 5.5 to 6.9)

  1. aNot all respondents completed all NS-SEC questions, and not all postcodes could be matched to remote/rural lookup files (including non-UK residence at the time of medical school application)
  2. bScottish data for age and sex is for 2010/11 matching the survey date; Scotland data for current practice location is for April 2015 which is the only date for which this data is publicly available