Table 3.

Gini coefficient and Theil L index of health workforce from 2003 to 2011

	Health worker				Doctor				Nurse
Year	Gini	Theil L	Between group (% of overall)	Within group (% of overall)	Gini	Theil L	Between group (% of overall)	Within group (% of overall)	Gini	Theil L	Between group (% of overall)	Within group (% of overall)
2003	0.211	0.087	0.086 (98.85)	0.001 (1.15)	0.197	0.074	0.073 (98.65)	0.001 (1.35)	0.277	0.163	0.1617 (99.51)	0.0008 (0.49)
2005	0.223	0.097	0.095 (97.94)	0.002 (2.06)	0.206	0.081	0.080 (98.77)	0.001 (1.23)	0.285	0.169	0.167 (98.82)	0.002 (1.18)
2007	0.241	0.111	0.109 (98.20)	0.002 (1.80)	0.223	0.095	0.094 (98.95)	0.001 (1.05)	0.299	0.185	0.182 (98.38)	0.003 (1.62)
2009	0.235	0.106	0.104 (98.11)	0.002 (1.89)	0.207	0.081	0.080 (98.77)	0.001 (1.23)	0.298	0.185	0.183 (98.92)	0.002 (1.08)
2011	0.108	0.019	0.003 (15.79)	0.016 (84.21)	0.103	0.018	0.0001 (0.57)	0.0174 (99.43)	0.144	0.040	0.023 (57.50)	0.017 (42.50)

Note: data were obtained from China Health Statistics Yearbooks