Table 2

Characteristics of the doctors in the UK sample (n=19 425)

	All sample		ACEM		GP		SUR		HBS		PSY		OTH
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Gender
Man	8081	41.6	1369	50.61	1393	26.66	2262	75.86	2334	34.49	361	36.91	362	47.2
Women	11 344	58.4	1336	49.39	3833	73.34	720	24.14	4433	65.51	617	63.09	405	52.8
Ethnicity
BME	4909	25.27	339	12.53	1432	27.4	926	31.05	1709	25.25	264	26.99	239	31.16
White	14 504	74.67	2366	87.47	3794	72.6	2052	68.81	5050	74.63	714	73.01	528	68.84
Missing	12	0.06					4	0.13	8	0.12
Age
40 years old or older	261	1.34	8	0.3	71	1.36	56	1.88	63	0.93	53	5.42	10	1.3
Less than 40 years old	19 164	98.66	2697	99.7	5155	98.64	2926	98.12	6704	99.07	925	94.58	757	98.7
School type
State	7490	38.56	1030	38.08	2329	44.57	967	32.43	2522	37.27	370	37.83	272	35.46
Grammar	4414	22.72	610	22.55	1166	22.31	610	20.46	1627	24.04	236	24.13	165	21.5
Independent	6859	35.31	962	35.56	1564	29.93	1258	42.19	2430	35.91	340	34.76	305	39.77
Missing	662	3.41	103	3.81	167	3.19	147	4.93	188	2.78	32	3.27	25	3.26
Parental university
Yes	12 788	65.83	1747	64.58	3237	61.94	1978	66.33	4649	68.7	669	68.4	508	66.23
No	6000	30.89	855	31.61	1827	34.96	859	28.81	1943	28.71	282	28.83	234	30.51
Missing	637	3.28	103	3.8	162	3.1	145	4.87	175	2.49	27	2.76	25	3.26
Income support
Yes	1988	10.23	282	10.43	581	11.12	297	9.96	627	9.27	101	10.33	100	13.04
No	15 609	80.36	2157	79.74	4146	79.33	2377	79.71	5541	81.88	795	81.29	593	77.31
Missing	1828	9.41	266	9.83	499	9.55	308	10.33	599	8.85	82	8.38	74	9.65

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.