Table 2.
Characteristics of the sample of GPs by country: gender, age, location of practice and typology of practice accommodation (data on 31 European countries from the QUALICOPC survey)
| Characteristics of the sample | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample | Gender | Age | Location of practice | Typology of practice accommodation | Practice population size | |||||
| Number | % female | Average | % Big (inner) city | % Suburb/small town | % Urban–rural or rural | Shared accommodation | ||||
| Alone | With other GPs | With medical specialist(s) | Average | |||||||
| Austria | 184 | 30.3 | 54.3 | 34.27 | 23.03 | 42.70 | 80.6 | 8.1 | 6.1 | 3096.3 |
| Belgium | 408 | 37.6 | 49.2 | 21.38 | 24.57 | 54.05 | 45.4 | 40.1 | 2 | 1494.9 |
| Bulgaria | 223 | 63.2 | 50.5 | 49.77 | 35.48 | 14.75 | 63 | 20.3 | 9.3 | 1616.5 |
| Cyprus | 71 | 49.2 | 48 | 76.06 | 19.72 | 4.23 | 10.6 | 64.9 | 22.3 | 2384.8 |
| Czech Rep | 219 | 69.9 | 51.8 | 27.06 | 43.12 | 29.82 | 82.7 | 10.4 | 2.6 | 1950.3 |
| Denmark | 212 | 43.4 | 53 | 26.67 | 44.29 | 29.05 | 21.3 | 53.7 | 0 | 1690.7 |
| Estonia | 129 | 90.5 | 50.8 | 43.41 | 31.01 | 25.58 | 65.2 | 29.6 | 0.7 | 2161 |
| Finland | 288 | 71.4 | 45 | 16.14 | 42.11 | 41.75 | 27.9 | 53.6 | 13 | 1919 |
| Germany | 238 | 36.1 | 53.9 | 23.48 | 30.87 | 45.65 | 48.5 | 30.4 | 3.7 | 2859.5 |
| Greece | 220 | 45.9 | 43.5 | 5.91 | 19.09 | 75 | 43.5 | 38.2 | 8.8 | 2457.1 |
| Hungary | 222 | 46.8 | 53.4 | 31.22 | 28.96 | 39.82 | 79.3 | 10.3 | 3.3 | 1733.1 |
| Iceland | 80 | 27.5 | 54.5 | 37.97 | 45.57 | 16.46 | 1.9 | 74.3 | 20.9 | 1726.9 |
| Ireland | 169 | 33.7 | 50.6 | 8.59 | 37.42 | 53.99 | 21.4 | 57.6 | 7.1 | 2768.9 |
| Italy | 218 | 37.6 | 57.1 | 25.93 | 52.31 | 21.76 | 43.4 | 46.3 | 4.1 | 1307.8 |
| Latvia | 218 | 88.5 | 52 | 41.9 | 29.05 | 29.05 | 84.8 | 9.2 | 2.7 | 1698.1 |
| Lithuania | 225 | 11.5 | 51.2 | 85.07 | 9.05 | 5.88 | 29.9 | 37.1 | 3.8 | 1378 |
| Luxembourg | 78 | 36.8 | 49 | 14.47 | 36.84 | 48.68 | 38.2 | 37.2 | 2.9 | 3599.6 |
| Malta | 70 | 29 | 46.7 | 12.86 | 58.57 | 28.57 | 33.7 | 43 | 17.4 | 3243.8 |
| Netherland | 238 | 28 | 53 | 17.09 | 33.76 | 49.15 | 23.6 | 54.5 | 3.3 | 2417.3 |
| Norway | 198 | 39 | 45.6 | 33.85 | 36.41 | 29.74 | 0.4 | 81.3 | 14.1 | 1093.4 |
| Poland | 220 | 63.6 | 49.5 | 30 | 36.82 | 33.18 | 24.9 | 50.9 | 12.6 | 2420.6 |
| Portugal | 216 | 60.5 | 51.4 | 14.42 | 42.79 | 42.79 | .. | .. | .. | 1773.6 |
| Romania | 220 | 83.2 | 52 | 33.64 | 26.27 | 40.09 | 34.1 | 41.5 | 7.4 | 1840.3 |
| Slovakia | 220 | 67.9 | 52.6 | 18.52 | 47.22 | 34.26 | 93.8 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 1677.4 |
| Slovenia | 207 | 75.4 | 48.9 | 35.92 | 31.55 | 32.52 | 71.9 | 15.3 | 2.5 | 1950 |
| Spain | 428 | 63.2 | 49.7 | 46.35 | 36.47 | 17.18 | 4 | 76.9 | 18.7 | 1655 |
| Sweden | 97 | 54.6 | 52 | 15.46 | 53.61 | 30.93 | 0.9 | 84.9 | 6.2 | 4022.3 |
| Switzerland | 199 | 22.1 | 55 | 19.29 | 28.93 | 51.78 | 37.5 | 37.9 | 7.9 | 1678 |
| Turkey | 299 | 30.5 | 44 | 73.58 | 15.72 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 76.9 | 7.6 | 3712.3 |
| England | 171 | 37.9 | 46.6 | 15.88 | 44.12 | 40 | 5.7 | 82 | 5.2 | 4892.8 |
| FYROM | 143 | 83.9 | 45.7 | 54.93 | 29.58 | 15.49 | 34.9 | 35.4 | 13.2 | 1693.8 |
Source: QUALICOPC