. 2019 Mar 27;9(3):e026961. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026961

Table 2.

Relationship between sociodemographic variables, performance on the UKFP selection process, and level 1 specialty training programme offers: 2013 and 2014 cohort

	Overall distribution		UKFP application score		Anaesthesia and emergency medicine		Diagnostics		General practice†		Medical specialties		Mental health		Obstetrics and gynaecology and med paediatrics		Surgical specialties		P value‡
	N	N %	Median (IQR)	P value*	N	N %	N	N %	N	N %	N	N %	N	N %	N	N %	N	N %	P value‡
Gender
Male	2408	39.7	82.9 (79.2–86.6)	<0.001	367	47.6	77	50.3	795	34.0	558	41.1	117	44.8	123	21.1	371	62.0	<0.001
Female	3657	60.3	84.3 (80.7–87.9)	<0.001	404	52.4	76	49.7	1546	66.0	800	58.9	144	55.2	460	78.9	227	38.0	<0.001
Age category
School leavers	4022	66.3	83.8 (80.1–87.5)	<0.001	506	65.6	89	58.2	1443	61.6	1012	74.5	158	60.5	406	69.6	408	68.2	<0.001
Mature	2043	33.7	82.6 (78.5–86.6)	<0.001	265	34.4	64	41.8	898	38.4	346	25.5	103	39.5	177	30.4	190	31.8	<0.001
Graduate on entry
Non-graduate	4377	72.2	83.7 (80.7–87.4)	0.054	548	71.1	102	66.7	1593	68.0	1086	80.0	171	65.5	438	75.1	439	73.4	<0.001
Graduate on entry	1688	27.8	83.1 (79.2–87.1)	0.054	223	28.9	51	33.3	748	32.0	272	20.0	90	34.5	145	24.9	159	26.6	<0.001
(High) School type
State-funded or college	3960	76.0	83.7 (80.0–87.5)	0.660	533	77.8	89	72.4	1635	78.9	821	72.3	160	71.7	373	77.9	349	70.4	<0.001
Privately funded school	1252	24.0	83.7 (80.0–87.3)	0.660	152	22.2	34	27.6	436	21.1	314	27.7	63	28.3	106	22.1	147	29.6	<0.001
Parental occupation
I Managerial and professional	3762	89.8	84.0 (80.2–87.6)	<0.001	509	92.0	98	91.6	1392	87.6	887	91.6	142	85.0	372	91.6	362	90.5	0.002
II–IV Other occupations	428	10.2	82.5 (78.9–86.6)	<0.001	44	8.0	9	8.4	197	12.4	81	8.4	25	15.0	34	8.4	38	9.5	0.002
Free school meals
No	4644	91.4	83.9 (80.3–87.6)	<0.001	594	90.7	114	91.9	1823	90.3	1036	92.9	198	90.4	458	94.8	421	90.1	0.018
Yes	438	8.6	82.4 (78.5–86.4)	<0.001	61	9.3	10	8.1	196	9.7	79	7.1	21	9.6	25	5.2	46	9.9	0.018
Income support
No	4159	85.7	84.0 (80.3–87.6)	<0.001	548	85.6	99	82.5	1619	84.2	931	88.2	180	87.8	416	88.9	366	83.2	0.010
Yes	693	14.3	82.9 (79.0–86.8)	<0.001	92	14.4	21	17.5	304	15.8	125	11.8	25	12.2	52	11.1	74	16.8	0.010
Parent degree
No	1791	34.1	83.1 (79.5–87.0)	<0.001	205	30.0	41	31.3	799	38.4	333	29.2	84	36.5	170	34.2	159	32.7	<0.001
Yes	3459	65.9	84.1 (80.3–87.7)	<0.001	479	70.0	90	68.7	1284	61.6	806	70.8	146	63.5	327	65.8	327	67.3	<0.001
Participation of local area (POLAR)
Low participation	334	6.1	83.2 (79.1–87.2)	<0.001	53	7.4	11	8.3	141	6.4	53	4.5	18	7.6	20	4.0	38	7.3	0.024
High participation	5169	93.9	83.7 (80.0–87.5)	<0.001	666	92.6	122	91.7	2079	93.6	1113	95.5	218	92.4	485	96.0	486	92.7	0.024
Ethnicity
Asian or Asian British	1372	22.7	81.8 (78.1–85.3)	<0.001	106	13.8	41	27.2	577	24.8	336	25.0	59	22.7	97	16.6	156	26.3	<0.001*
Black or Black British	126	2.1	79.9 (75.7–83.7)		4	0.5	4	2.6	56	2.4	29	2.2	3	1.2	8	1.4	22	3.7
Mixed	218	3.6	82.7 (79.3–87.0)		25	3.3	2	1.3	69	3.0	60	4.5	10	3.8	20	3.4	32	5.4
Other ethnic groups	158	2.6	82.1 (78.5–86.2)		15	2.0	6	4.0	44	1.9	51	3.8	4	1.5	13	2.2	25	4.2
White	4158	68.9	84.6 (81.0–88.1)		619	80.5	98	64.9	1584	68.0	869	64.6	184	70.8	445	76.3	359	60.4
UK domicile
England	4537	82.3	83.7 (80.0–87.4)	0.118	591	82.0	112	83.6	1821	81.9	963	82.4	191	80.6	419	82.8	440	83.5	0.004
Northern Ireland	248	4.5	83.6 (79.5–87.5)		34	4.7	3	2.2	87	3.9	77	6.6	3	1.3	28	5.5	16	3.0
Scotland	480	8.7	84.4 (80.6–87.7)		68	9.4	13	9.7	207	9.3	82	7.0	29	12.2	38	7.5	43	8.2
Wales	251	4.6	83.8 (79.3–87.0)		28	3.9	6	4.5	108	4.9	46	3.9	14	5.9	21	4.2	28	5.3
(UK) Place of medical qualification
Northern Ireland	170	2.8	84.5 (81.5–87.5)	<0.001	14	1.8	3	2.0	68	2.9	57	4.2	1	0.4	18	3.1	9	1.5	0.018
Scotland	665	11.0	84.3 (80.6–88.0)		92	11.9	18	11.8	253	10.8	141	10.4	39	14.9	54	9.3	68	11.4
Wales	321	5.3	86.1 (81.2–89.4)		37	4.8	6	3.9	137	5.9	62	4.6	15	5.7	30	5.1	34	5.7
England	4909	80.9	83.5 (79.8–87.2)		628	81.5	126	82.4	1883	80.4	1098	80.9	206	78.9	481	82.5	487	81.4
Programme type
5-Year standard entry	4956	81.7	83.7 (80.0–87.4)	<0.001	628	81.5	109	71.2	1854	79.2	1177	86.7	202	77.4	489	83.9	497	83.1	<0.001*
4-Year graduate entry	1036	17.1	80.1 (76.1–83.7)		137	17.8	42	27.5	457	19.5	165	12.2	54	20.7	88	15.1	93	15.6
6-Year WA route	73	1.2	80.7 (76.9 _ 84.7)		6	0.8	2	1.3	30	1.3	16	1.2	5	1.9	6	1.0	8	1.3
Foundation school (region)
London area	1623	26.8	84.9 (81.8–88.1)	<0.001	204	26.5	43	28.1	565	24.1	395	29.1	60	23.0	169	29.0	187	31.3	<0.001
Northern Ireland	175	2.9	84.5 (80.2–87.5)		16	2.1	2	1.3	70	3.0	62	4.6	0	0.0	19	3.3	6	1.0
Rest of England	2591	42.7	81.1 (77.3–85.8)		343	44.5	67	43.8	1039	44.4	550	40.5	117	44.8	252	43.2	223	37.3
Scotland	612	10.1	83.7 (79.7–87.3)		86	11.2	15	9.8	249	10.6	119	8.8	37	14.2	47	8.1	59	9.9
South of England	763	12.6	83.7 (80.7–87.1)		86	11.2	20	13.1	283	12.1	173	12.7	35	13.4	75	12.9	91	15.2
Wales	301	5.0	81.0 (74.8–86.5)		36	4.7	6	3.9	135	5.8	59	4.3	12	4.6	21	3.6	32	5.4

*For association between selected demographic variables and UKFP application score.

†Includes <0.5% who applied for Public Health.

‡For association between selected demographic variables and accepted specialty offer.

UKFP, UK Foundation Programme; WA, widening access.