Table 1 Demographics of 1101 University of Auckland medical programme elective students according to route of entry, 2010–2016
Variable | Category | General N = 748 (67%) | MAPAS N = 212 (19.3%) | RRAS N = 141 (3.8%) | Total N (%) | P-valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 377 (50.4) | 84 (39.6) | 56 (39.7) | 517 (46.9) | |
Female | 371 (49.6) | 128 (60.4) | 85 (60.3) | 584 (53.0) | 0.004 | |
Age | 20–24 | 507 (67.8) | 106 (50.0) | 79 (56.0) | 692 (62.9) | |
25+ | 241 (32.2) | 106 (50.0) | 62 (44.0) | 409 (37.1) | < 0.001 | |
Secondary school attended decileb | Low (1–3) | 30 (4.0) | 61 (29.1) | 12 (9.0) | 103 (9.4) | |
Medium (4–8) | 219 (29.4) | 75 (35.7) | 83 (61.9) | 377 (34.2) | ||
High (9–10) | 464 (62.4) | 67 (31.9) | 35 (26.1) | 566 (51.4) | ||
Overseas schooling | 31 (4.2) | 7 (3.3) | 4 (3.0) | 42 (3.8) | < 0.001 | |
Missing | 13 (1.2) | |||||
Ethnicity | NZ European | 347 (47.0) | – | 119 (85.6) | 466 (42.3) | |
Māori | 9 (1.2) | 128 (60.7) | 1 (0.7) | 138 (12.5) | ||
Pacific | 3 (0.8) | 83 (39.3) | 1 (0.7) | 90 (8.2) | ||
Asian | 348 (47.1) | – | 17 (12.2) | 365 (33.1) | ||
Other | 29 (3.9) | – | 1 (0.7) | 30 (2.7) | < 0.001 | |
Missing | 12 (1.1) | |||||
Year of elective | 2010 | 80 (10.7) | 20 (9.4) | 24 (17.0) | 124 (11.2) | |
2011 | 98 (13.1) | 21 (9.9) | 19 (13.5) | 138 (12.5) | ||
2012 | 100 (13.4) | 24 (11.3) | 11 (7.8) | 135 (12.3) | ||
2013 | 108 (14.4) | 32 (15.1) | 23 (16.3) | 163 (14.8) | ||
2014 | 114 (15.2) | 33 (15.6) | 19 (13.5) | 166 (15.1) | ||
2015 | 123 (16.4) | 36 (17.0) | 18 (12.8) | 177 (16.1) | ||
2016 | 125 (16.7) | 46 (21.7) | 27 (19.1) | 189 (17.9) | 0.32 |