Table 2.

Sex and age distribution of researchers and employees at health research institutions in 42 sub-Saharan African countries, 2009.

Details of employees	Institutions	Individuals	Mean	95% confidence interval
				Lower	Upper
Current employees (all types) who are
Male, full-time	599	95,344	159.2	89.5	228.9
Male, part-time	422	14,858	35.2	18.2	52.2
Female, full-time	580	71,191	122.7	59.9	185.5
Female, part-time	397	3631	9.1	5.7	12.5
Sex of health researchers
Male	457	7650	16.7	10.5	23.0
Female	413	3804	9.2	4.4	14.0
Age (years)
20–29	254	1967	7.7	0.7	16.2
30–39	350	3168	9.1	5.6	12.5
40–49	350	3716	7.8	5.0	10.5
50–59	301	2067	6.9	2.9	10.8
≥60	396	425	1.1	0.3	1.9