General practitioners’ altered preferences for private practice vs. salaried positions: a consequence of proposed policy regulations?

Table 1 Characteristics

Variable	Respondents		All Norwegian GPs
	2009	2012
	n = 1 308	n = 1 275
Age	47	48	49²
Female	36%	37%	35%²
Municipality
<5 000	13%	16%	14%¹
5 000–49 999	55%	53%	52%¹
50 000+	32%	31%	34%¹
Specialty attainment	66%	70%	55%³
List size (mean)	1 209	1152	1 182²
Preferred list size (mean)		1108
Discrepancy between preferred and actual list size
Fewer patients listed than preferred		18%
No discrepancy		42%
More patients listed than preferred		41%
Working hours (weekly mean)		45
Preferred working hours (weekly mean)		38
Discrepancy between preferred and actual working hours
Work fewer hours than preferred		2%
No discrepancy		20%
Work more hours than preferred		78%
Current practice
Private practice	75%	71%
Hired practice	18%	20%
Salary with bonus	4%	4%
Salary without bonus	3%	6%
Income ^a
< NOK 700 000	-	10%	-
NOK 700 000 – 849 000	-	17%	-
NOK 850 000 – 999 000	-	20%	-
NOK 1 000 000 – 1 149 000	-	17%	-
NOK 1 150 000 – 1 299 000	-	18%	-
NOK 1 300 000 – 1 500 000	-	10%	-
> NOK 1 500 000	-	8%	-
Mean income (SD)^b	1 051 000 (298 000)

¹Statistics Norway (www.ssb.no accessed 24th of March 2011).
²https://helsedirektoratet.no/statistikk-og-analyse/fastlegestatistikk.
³http://legeforeningen.no/Emner/Andre-emner/Legestatistikk/.
Note: Right and left column is copied from [20] ^agross taxable income after deducting operating costs and national insurance costs (pension, sick pay etc.) ^bMean income is constructed from the mid-points of the selected income range for each GP.