Table 5.

Importance of surgeon’s sex, religion and community compared using rank data (5a) and frequency data from Likert questions and questions based on surgeon’s sex (5b)

	Sex	Religion	Community
(a) Rank statistics
Patient	14.8%	8.55%	4.6%
Post-graduate perspective	28.6%	13.2%	23.1%
(b) Data from Likert questions and questions based on surgeon’s sex
Patient	19.1%	20.4%	16.5%
Post-graduate perspective	46.2%	31.9%	31.9%