Swedish doctors choice of medical speciality and associations with cultural capital and perceived status: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the participants, by chosen speciality

	Total		Surgical		Primary care		Internal medicine		Psychiatry		Hospital service
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Gender
Female	165	63	47	56	43	64	48	68	17	81	10	53	0.181
Male	97	37	37	44	24	36	23	32	4	19	9	47	0.181
Age
Up to 37	144	55	51	61	33	49	38	53	9	43	13	68	0.326
From 38	118	45	33	39	34	51	33	46	12	57	6	32	0.326
Social background
Working class	10	4	4	5	2	3	2	3	1	5	1	5	0.733
Lower to middle class	71	28	22	27	15	23	25	37	5	24	4	21
Upper middle class	171	68	55	68	47	73	40	60	15	71	14	74
Ethnic background
Swedish	228	88	74	89	61	92	58	83	18	86	17	94	0.450
Foreign	30	12	9	11	5	8	12	17	3	14	1	6	0.450
Marital status
Married/Registered partner	142	57	42	52	44	68	37	57	12	57	7	37	0.296
Partner/Not married	88	35	32	39	18	28	23	35	6	29	9	47
Single	21	8	7	9	3	5	5	8	3	14	3	16
Status of residency training
Ongoing	202	78	55	68	52	78	58	82	19	90	18	95	0.039*
Completed	57	22	26	32	15	22	13	18	2	9	1	5	0.039*

Values with * denote statistically significant differences, P < 0.05, using Fischer’s exact test for comparisons between groups

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