Table 1.
Response rates
| 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% |
Note 1: Doctor type as defined in the AMPCo database.