Table 4 Physician retirement plans and experience of professional dissatisfaction by age and specialty*
Age group | Specialty | Dissatisfied | Not dissatisfied | Test statistic | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plan to retire | No plan to retire | Plan to retire | No plan to retire | ||||
<45 yrs | FP | 5.32% | 94.68% | 0.21% | 99.79% | X 2(1) = 23.56 | <0.001 |
Surgeons | 0 | 100 | 0 | 100 | X 2(1) = 0.30 | 0.61 | |
Other specialists | 2.71 | 97.29 | 0.20 | 99.80 | X 2(1) = 8.57 | <0.01 | |
45-54 yrs | FP | 8.43% | 91.57% | 1.21% | 98.79% | X 2(1) = 23.73 | <0.001 |
Surgeons | 7.74 | 92.26 | 1.62 | 98.38 | X 2(1) = 1.31 | 0.22 | |
Other specialists | 1.18 | 98.82 | 0.53 | 99.47 | X 2(1) = 0.51 | 0.47 | |
55-64 yrs | FP | 24.37% | 75.63% | 10.95% | 89.05% | X 2(1) = 11.98 | <0.001 |
Surgeons | 44.81 | 55.19 | 13.79 | 86.21 | X 2(1) = 4.85 | 0.03 | |
Other specialists | 19.58 | 80.42 | 7.10 | 92.90 | X 2(1) = 10.24 | <0.01 | |