Table 1

Characteristics of the doctors in the general sample (n=27 530)

	All sample		ACEM		GP		SUR		HBS		PSY		OTH
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Gender
Man	12 524	45.49	1761	53.22	2134	30.72	3104	78.38	4030	40.2	914	42.81	581	50.26
Women	15 006	54.51	1548	46.78	4812	69.28	856	21.62	5994	59.8	1221	57.19	575	49.74
Ethnicity
BME	11 301	41.05	756	22.85	2890	41.61	1628	41.11	4322	43.12	1200	56.21	505	43.69
White	16 215	58.9	2553	77.15	4056	58.39	2328	58.79	5692	56.78	935	43.79	651	56.31
Missing	14	0.05					4	0.1	10	0.1
Age
40 years old or more	1404	5.1	67	2.02	344	4.95	184	4.65	426	4.25	366	17.14	17	1.47
Less than 40 years old	26 126	94.9	3242	97.98	6602	95.05	3776	95.35	9598	95.75	1769	82.86	1139	98.53
Place of studies
UK	19 425	70.56	2705	81.75	5226	75.24	2982	75.3	6767	67.51	978	45.81	767	66.35
Overseas	8105	29.44	604	18.25	1720	24.76	978	24.7	3257	32.49	1157	54.19	389	33.65

ACEM, acute care, emergency medicine and anaesthetics; BME, black and minority ethnic; GP, general practice; HBS, hospital-based specialties; OTH, pathology, radiology and public health; PSY, psychiatric specialties; SUR, surgical specialties.