Table 2.
Demographics of emergency medicine (EM), family medicine (FM), infectious disease (ID) and obstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) respondents.
| Variables (total respondents) |
EM n(%) 457 (24.8) |
FM n (%) 451 (24.5) |
ID n (%) 408 (22.2) |
OB/GYN n (%) 525 (28.5) |
p value‡ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-reported health status (1,835) | <0.001 | ||||
| Poor/fair | 153 (33.6)a* | 129 (28.7)a | 137 (33.7)a | 73 (13.9)b | |
| Good/very good/excellent | 302 (66.4) | 320 (71.3) | 269 (66.3) | 452 (86.1) | |
| Age (1,774) | <0.001 | ||||
| Under 35 | 207 (46.6)a | 96 (22.2)b | 60 (15.2)c | 381 (75.8)d | |
| 35–65 | 206 (46.4) | 268 (62.0) | 285 (72.2) | 120 (23.9) | |
| >65 | 31 (7.0) | 68 (15.7) | 50 (12.7) | 2 (0.40) | |
| Gender (1,779) | <0.001 | ||||
| Male | 158 (35.4)a | 127 (29.3)a | 228 (57.6)b | 5 (1.0)c | |
| Female | 289 (64.7) | 307 (70.7) | 168 (42.4) | 497 (99.0) | |
| Highest education level (1,756) | <0.001 | ||||
| Less than high school diploma | 86 (19.7)a | 40 (9.4)b | 80 (20.5)c | 66 (13.2)b,c | |
| High school graduate or GED | 187 (42.8) | 137 (32.0) | 121(31.0) | 164 (32.8) | |
| Some college or 2-year degree | 113 (25.9) | 129 (30.1) | 116 (29.7) | 170 (34.0) | |
| College graduate or more | 51 (11.7) | 122 (28.5) | 74 (18.9) | 100 (20.0) | |
| Latino or Hispanic origin? (1,757) | <0.001 | ||||
| Yes | 235 (53.2)a | 119 (27.8)b | 117 (29.9)b | 210 (42.4)c | |
| No | 207 (46.8) | 309 (72.2) | 275 (70.2) | 285 (57.6) | |
| Race (1,643) | <0.001 | ||||
| White or Caucasian | 197 (48.5)a | 280 (68.1)b | 218 (59.2)c | 254 (55.5)a,c | |
| Black or African-American | 52 (12.8) | 37 (9.0) | 66 (17.9) | 62 (13.5) | |
| Hispanic, Puerto Rican, Latino, Columbian, Spanish, Mexican-American, Dominican | 114 (28.1) | 59 (14.4) | 56 (15.2) | 88 (19.2) | |
| Multi-racial | 19 (4.7) | 13 (3.2) | 7 (1.9) | 23 (5.0) | |
| Other than above | 24 (5.9) | 22 (5.4) | 21 (5.7) | 31 (6.8) | |
| Speak and understand english? (1,753) | <0.001 | ||||
| Very well | 335 (75.7)a | 361 (83.4)b,c | 305 (78.8)a,c | 432 (87.6)b | |
| Pretty good | 35 (8.0) | 38 (8.8) | 35 (9.0) | 25 (5.1) | |
| Can understand, but have a hard time speaking it | 40 (9.1) | 26 (6.0) | 26 (6.7) | 20 (4.1) | |
| Cannot speak English | 32 (7.3) | 8 (1.9) | 21 (5.4) | 16 (3.3) | |
| Employment (1,735) | <0.001 | ||||
| Full-time | 147 (34.0)a | 174 (40.6)b | 113 (29.4)c | 187 (38.3)d | |
| Part-time | 61 (14.1) | 55 (12.8) | 41 (10.7) | 100 (20.5) | |
| Unemployed and looking for work | 80 (18.5) | 37 (8.6) | 41 (10.7) | 72 (14.8) | |
| Unemployed, but not looking for work | 36 (8.3) | 28 (6.5) | 39 (10.1) | 67 (13.7) | |
| Student | 12 (2.8) | 11 (2.6) | 8 (2.1) | 20 (4.1) | |
| Retired | 48 (11.1) | 82 (19.1) | 73 (19.0) | 8 (1.6) | |
| Other | 18 (4.1) | 8 (1.9) | 19 (4.9) | 21 (4.3) | |
| Disabled | 31 (7.2) | 34 (7.9) | 51 (13.7) | 13 (2.7) | |
| Income in 2013 (1,680) | <0.001 | ||||
| Less than $30,000 | 237 (56.4)a | 186 (44.5)b | 191 (51.9)b, c | 250 (52.7)a, c | |
| $30,001–$50,000 | 52 (12.4) | 78 (18.7) | 46 (12.5) | 80 (16.9) | |
| $50,001–$75,000 | 14 (3.3) | 34 (8.1) | 28 (7.6) | 33 (7.0) | |
| More than $75,001 | 12 (2.9) | 48 (11.5) | 32 (8.7) | 18 (3.8) | |
| I‘d rather not answer | 105 (25.0) | 72 (17.2) | 71 (19.3) | 93 (19.6) | |
| Respondents using translated surveys | 92 (20.1) | 33 (7.3) | 51 (12.5) | 30 (5.7) |
GED, General Education Development.
*
Superscript letters highlight results of pairwise comparisons by specialty. For each demographic variable, cells with at least one letter the same indicate specialties for which there was no statistically significant association.
‡
P-values are the results of the omnibus chi-square test for each demographic variable by specialty and are not adjusted in any way.