Table 6.

The NHS is a good equal opportunities employer for doctors from ethnic minorities: percentage response by ethnicity (white or non-white), 1999–2013.^*

		Strongly agree	Agree	Neither agree nor disagree	Disagree	Strongly disagree	Total	N (100%)
White	1999	4.8	40.9	27.4	21.9	5.1	100.0	2984
	2000	11.1	46.2	23.1	17.0	2.7	100.0	1610
	2001	8.5	42.7	23.1	22.3	3.3	100.0	1743
	2002	5.8	41.1	28.6	21.0	3.5	100.0	1271
	2003	11.3	49.5	21.9	14.5	2.8	100.0	3209
	2004	7.3	43.2	29.4	17.4	2.7	100.0	1289
	2005	12.8	53.1	20.1	11.9	2.1	100.0	2608
	2013	44.9	48.4	5.8	0.8	0.1	100.0	1447
Non-white	1999	1.7	23.3	26.1	32.3	16.5	100.0	696
	2000	1.7	25.4	27.9	31.0	14.0	100.0	480
	2001	2.2	25.4	24.3	33.3	14.7	100.0	448
	2002	2.1	28.4	22.5	32.3	14.7	100.0	285
	2003	4.4	32.0	25.5	26.3	11.8	100.0	1040
	2004	2.8	33.5	26.3	27.1	10.4	100.0	251
	2005	7.4	42.6	19.9	21.7	8.4	100.0	955
	2013	30.1	54.7	9.5	4.5	1.3	100.0	539
Total	1999	4.2	37.5	27.1	23.9	7.2	100.0	3680
	2000	8.9	41.4	24.2	20.2	5.3	100.0	2090
	2001	7.2	39.2	23.4	24.6	5.7	100.0	2191
	2002	5.1	38.8	27.4	23.1	5.6	100.0	1556
	2003	9.6	45.2	22.8	17.4	5.0	100.0	4249
	2004	6.6	41.6	28.9	19.0	4.0	100.0	1540
	2005	11.3	50.3	20.0	14.5	3.8	100.0	3563
	2013	40.9	50.1	6.8	1.8	0.5	100.0	1986

^*Excludes respondents who did not reply to this question or who selected ‘No opinion’. Jonckheere-Terpstra test statistics: total – 17.8, white – 15.6, non-white – 11.9 (all p < 0.001).