Table 2.

Estimated number of 1977 qualifiers working in NHS in Great Britain in 1995

	Known to MCRG and DoH	Known to MCRG only	Known to DoH only	Rest (estimated)	Total (estimated)	% working in the NHS (95% CI)
Men	1181	110	314	29	1634	80.5 (79.9 to 81.2)
Women	556	104	85	16	761	78.6 (77.7 to 79.5)
Total*	1737	214	399	49	2399	80.0 (79.5 to 80.6)

MCRG=Medical Careers Research Group; DoH=Department of Health. 

Analysis is confined to Great Britain because comparable data were not available for Northern Ireland. There were 2997 qualifiers (2029 men) from medical schools in Great Britain in 1977. 

^*Estimates for subpopulations in capture-recapture methods may not total the estimates for the overall population.⁴