Table 3.

Characteristics of all respondents (N = 1478), respondents of the first stage of education (N = 679) and the second stage of education(N = 396)

Characteristics	All respondents	Respondents first education stage	Respondents second education stage	Respondents unknown education stage
Average age	22.8	20.6	23.9	23.8
Gender: men	27.8%	28.3% (N = 192)	26.0% (N = 103)	28.8% (N = 116)
women	72.1%	71.7% (N = 487)	74.0% (N = 293)	71.0% (N = 286)
Living together: men	16.5% (N = 67)	8.9% (N = 17)	23.3% (N = 24)	6.5% (N = 26)
women	20.6% (N = 220)	12.3% (N = 60)	28.3% (N = 83)	19.1% (N = 77)
Stage of education: first stage	45.9% (N = 679)
second stage	26.8% (N = 396)
unknown	27.3% (N = 403)
Choice of continuing medical education:
General practice	9.7% (N = 144)	8.2% (N = 56)	10.1% (N = 40)	11.9% (N = 48)
Medical specialty	61.9% (N = 915)	57.4% (N = 390)	67.2% (N = 266)	64.3% (N = 259)
do not know	21.6 (N = 319)	29.2% (N = 198)	14,1% (N = 56)	16.1% (N = 65)
other	5.7% (N = 84)	3.5% (N = 24)	7,9% (N = 31)	5,2% (N = 21)
missing	1.0% (N = 16)	0.4% (N = 3)	0.8% (N = 3)	2,5% (N = 10)
Medical specialty choice:
Surgery specialty	21.5% (N = 318)	20.2% (N = 137)	23.7% (N = 94)	21.6% (N = 87)
Non-surgery specialty	25.2% (N = 373)	19.4% (N = 132)	31.1% (N = 123)	29.3% (N = 118)
others	17%% (N = 148)	18.7% (N = 73)	13.9% (N = 37)	14.7% (N = 38)
missing	3.0%) (N = 32)	5.4% (N = 21)	1.6% (N = 4)	2.7% (N = 7)