Table 1.

Distribution of respondents by key personal and professional characteristics (percent).

Personal characteristics		Professional characteristics
Age		Specialty
≤44	26	Family medicine	43
45–60	55	Internal medicine/other	19
>60	19	Not board certified	38
Sex		Form of employment
Female	44	Salaried only	48
Male	56	Independent only	25
		Both salaried and self-employed	26
Population group	Main type of practice
Non-Jews	24	Primary care physician	96
Jews	76	Specialist	4
Country of birth
Outside of Israel	60
Israel	40