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Table 1 Response rates

From: The "Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey - Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors' workforce participation

  

Doctor type1

 

All doctors

GP

Specialist

Hospital non-specialist

Specialist in training

a) Total

54,750

22,137

19,579

8,820

4,214

b) Useable responses (with at least one question answered)

10,498

3,873

4,310

1,451

864

c) Refusal (i.e. H/C returned blank, declined)

349

145

124

54

26

d) No contact (return to sender)

1,244

161

307

547

229

e) No responses

42,132

17,762

14,555

6,732

3,083

f) Not eligible (i.e. retired, no longer in clinical practice)

527

196

283

36

12

Response rate (b/(a-f))

19.36%

17.65%

22.34%

16.52%

20.56%

Contact rate ((b+c+e))/(a-f))

97.71%

99.27%

98.41%

93.77%

94.55%

Online responses

30.41%

25.38%

27.60%

47.62%

38.08%

  1. Note 1: Doctor type as defined in the AMPCo database.