Table 3.

Pharmacy characteristics

Pharmacy characteristics	n = 69 (%)
Pharmacy type
• Attached to doctor’s clinic	50 (72%)
• Not attached to doctor’s clinic	19 (28%)
Pharmacy location
• Street	62 (90%)
• Residential areas	3 (4%)
• Traditional market	3 (4%)
• Shopping mall	1 (1%)
Pharmacy ownership
• Pharmacist	7 (10%)
• Non-pharmacist	60 (87%)
• Other (i.e., joint business of pharmacist and non-pharmacist)	2 (3%)
Pharmacy services
• Self-medication services	69 (100%)
• Compounding prescription medication services	65 (94%)
• Non-compounding prescription medication services	68 (99%)
• Other (e.g., health promotion, etc.)	2 (3%)
Estimated total patients served per day (from 67 pharmacies)*	4595
Estimated total patients served for self-medication per day (from 67 pharmacies)*	2975
Total staff employed in the 69 pharmacies surveyed	352
• Total number of pharmacists	75
• Total number of pharmacy technicians	86
• Total number of staff who do not have formal education in pharmacy	191
Total staff working hours per week in the 69 pharmacies surveyed
• Pharmacists	1270
• Pharmacy technicians	3542
• Other staff who do not have formal education in pharmacy	8973
Total pharmacy opening hours per week in the 69 pharmacies surveyed	6198
Number of pharmacies which had a ratio of pharmacists’ working hours per week to total pharmacy opening hours as <1**	68 (99%)
Number of pharmacies which had a ratio of pharmacy technicians’ working hours per week to total pharmacy opening hours as <1**	52 (75%)
Number of pharmacies in which the pharmacist manager had a primary job other than being a pharmacy manager (i.e., as a government employee)	55 (80%)

*Calculated from 67 pharmacies. There were 2 missing data for these questions.

**Ratio <1 implied that pharmacists or pharmacy technicians were not always available during pharmacy opening hours.