Table 7. Survey and demographic comparison between the public and professional groups by country.
| CANADA | US | |||||||
| Public (n = 761) | Professionals (n = 707) | ?2 | Public(n = 778) | Professionals (n = 764) | ?2 | |||
| Completion time (minutes) | 18.3 | 26.9 | − | 21.6 | 28.1 | − | ||
| Pass rate 1 | 58.2% | 76.2% | 79.94* | 59.4% | 76.6% | 74.87* | ||
| Gender | 1.12 | Gender | 26.9* | |||||
| Male | 48.0% | 46.0% | 48.2% | 38.8% | ||||
| Female | 52.0% | 54.0% | 51.8% | 61.2% | ||||
| Age group | 1.32 | Age group | 15.87* | |||||
| 18 to 34 | 27.3% | 26.0% | 29.7% | 23.9% | ||||
| 35 to 50 | 35.1% | 34.4% | 27.5% | 32.6% | ||||
| 50+ | 37.5% | 39.6% | 42.8% | 43.5% | ||||
| Province | 114.71* + | Region 2 | 5.24 | |||||
| Alberta | 10.6% | 11.5% | ||||||
| British Columbia | 13.1% | 8.6% | Midwest | 22.6% | 23.2% | |||
| Manitoba | 3.8% | 6.3% | Northeast | 18.1% | 15.7% | |||
| New Brunswick | 2.1% | 1.4% | South | 35.9% | 34.9% | |||
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 1.4% | 2.0% | West | 23.4% | 26.2% | |||
| Nova Scotia | 2.8% | 2.8% | ||||||
| Northwest Territories | 0.1% | 0.3% | ||||||
| Nunavut | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||
| Ontario | 38.9% | 48.9% | ||||||
| Prince Edward Island | 0.9% | 1.6% | ||||||
| Quebec | 22.7% | 10.7% | ||||||
| Saskatchewan | 3.0% | 5.8% | ||||||
| Yukon | 0.4% | 0.1% | ||||||
| Educational attainment | Educational attainment | |||||||
| High school graduate or less | 34.8% | 0.6% | 6482.59* | 42.9% | 3.5% | 6023.43* | ||
| Diploma, trade or college degree | 25.4% | 3.6% | 4.5% | 0.5% | ||||
| Bachelor’s degree | 27.1% | 13.5% | 35.0% | 14.7% | ||||
| Master’s degree | 7.4% | 13.6% | 13.0% | 18.6% | ||||
| Professional degree (MD, DVM) | 3.3% | 48.6% | 2.8% | 40.0% | ||||
| Doctorate degree | 1.5% | 20.1% | 1.8% | 22.7% | ||||
Participants passed the survey if all 14 choice task sets were completed and the correct diseases were selected for both fixed choice task set.
Regions were:
Midwest (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin);
Northeast (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont);
South (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia);
West (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming).
Significant at p<0.001.
An additional Fisher’s exact test was conducted to take into account of the small sample size in some Provinces and Territories; the results remain unchanged with no statistically significant relationship between the study population and the national population distributions (p = 1.000).