Table 1.

Doctors promoted to consultant in Scotland, by year and sex

No of doctors in each year	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	Total person years and average annual incidence of promotion
Women
Not promoted	184	212	248	321	375	389	390	407	2526
Promoted	22	20	35	26	41	35	47	39	265
% promoted	10.7	8.6	12.4	7.5	9.9	8.3	10.8	8.7	9.5
Total	206	232	283	347	416	424	437	446	2791
Men
Not promoted	360	368	421	469	509	540	499	481	3647
Promoted	38	48	88	91	94	70	100	76	605
% promoted	9.5	11.5	17.3	16.3	15.6	11.5	16.7	13.6	14.2
Total	398	416	509	560	603	610	599	557	4252
All doctors
Not promoted	544	580	669	790	884	929	889	888	6173
Promoted	60	68	123	117	135	105	147	115	870
% promoted	9.9	10.5	15.5	12.9	13.2	10.2	14.2	11.5	12.4
Total	604	648	792	907	1019	1034	1036	1003	7043

The sample includes all doctors in NHS Scotland on September 30 each year between 1993 and 2000 in the grade of registrar, senior registrar, and specialist registrar.

Observations from 1991 and 1992 were not included in the model because two of the independent variables were lagged by two years.