Table 1.
Demographic composition of survey respondents
| Gender | n | % |
| Female | 862 | 56.8 |
| Male | 655 | 43.2 |
| Not disclosed | 242 | |
| Age bracket | ||
| 30–39 | 182 | 11.6 |
| 40–49 | 577 | 36.8 |
| 50–59 | 545 | 34.8 |
| 60–69 | 235 | 15.0 |
| 70 and over | 29 | 1.8 |
| Not disclosed | 191 | |
| Ethnicity categories | ||
| NZ European/Pākehā | 919 | 59.4 |
| Māori/Pasifika (Samoan, Cook Island Māori, Tongan, Fijian) | 31 | 2.0 |
| Asian/Indian (Southeast Asian, Chinese, Indian, other Asian) | 165 | 10.7 |
| European/other European | 315 | 20.4 |
| Other (Middle Eastern, Latin American/Hispanic, African, ‘other’) | 117 | 7.6 |
| Not disclosed | 212 | |
| Country of primary medical qualification | ||
| New Zealand | 888 | 58.1 |
| International medical graduate | 638 | 41.9 |
| Not disclosed | 230 | |
| Medical specialty | ||
| Anaesthesia | 199 | 14.3 |
| Cardiology | 30 | 2.1 |
| Dentistry | 31 | 2.2 |
| Emergency medicine | 94 | 6.7 |
| General medicine | 73 | 5.2 |
| General practice | 35 | 2.5 |
| General surgery | 48 | 3.4 |
| Geriatric medicine | 38 | 2.7 |
| Intensive care medicine | 31 | 2.2 |
| Nephrology | 18 | 1.3 |
| Obstetrics/gynaecology | 56 | 4.0 |
| Occupational and public health medicine | 18 | 1.3 |
| Oncology | 28 | 2.0 |
| Ophthalmology | 27 | 1.9 |
| Orthopaedic surgery | 48 | 3.4 |
| Other | 30 | 2.1 |
| Otolaryngology | 21 | 1.5 |
| Paediatrics | 113 | 8.1 |
| Palliative medicine | 24 | 1.7 |
| Pathology | 29 | 2.1 |
| Psychiatry | 178 | 12.8 |
| Radiology | 75 | 5.4 |
| Respiratory medicine | 19 | 1.4 |
| Rural hospital medicine | 18 | 1.3 |
| Specialist internal medicine other | 71 | 5.1 |
| Specialist surgery other | 44 | 3.2 |
| Not disclosed | 363 |
NZ, New Zealand.