Table 3.

Attrition rate among the staff of Department of Medical Sciences according to gender in 2013

Variables	Male				Female				Total
	N	%	p-valuea)		N	%	p-valuea)		N	%	p-valuea,b)
Total	25/546	4.6			54/2,021	2.7			79/2,567	3.1	< 0.05
Age			<0.001				< 0.001				< 0.001
< 30 years	2/196	1.0			5/733	0.7			7/929	0.8
31–45 years	13/236	5.5			29/872	3.3			42/1,108	3.4
46–60 years	10/114	8.8			20/416	4.8			30/530	5.8
Education			0.268				< 0.05				< 0.05
Bachelor degree	11/172	6.4			17/637	2.7			28/809	3.5
Master degree	11/325	3.4			27/1,212	2.2			38/1,537	2.5
PhD degree	3/49	6.1			10/172	5.8			13/221	5.9
Oversea degree			0.163				0.217				0.841
Yes	4/46	8.7			2/167	1.2			6/213	2.8
No	21/500	4.2			2/1,854	2.8			73/2,354	3.1

a) p-values are from a chi-square test.

b) Comparison between both genders.