Table 5.

Distribution of Study Participants in Different Clusters by Sub-Groups

Parameter	Sub-groups	No. of participants	No. of clusters				Chi-square test
			1	2	3	4	χ2	Degrees of freedom	p-value
Gender	Male	39	9	4	13	13	7.69	3	0.05
	Female	56	24	8	7	17
Background	Rural	8	4	1	3	0	4.50	3	0.21
	Urban	85	29	11	16	29
Doctors in family	Yes	56	16	9	13	18	3.91	3	0.27
	No	37	17	3	6	11
Attempts	One	60	15	8	14	23	7.74	3	0.05
	>One	30	15	3	6	6
When decided	Never	18	1	3	6	8	10.92	6	0.09
	Early	42	19	5	8	10
	Late	30	10	3	6	11
Career counselling	Yes	24	7	1	8	8	3.93	3	0.27
	No	66	23	10	12	21
Career choice	Only MBBS	48	19	7	10	12	3.71	3	0.29
	Others	42	11	4	10	17
Alternate career choice	Other than wait	35	8	4	6	17	6.95	3	0.07
	Wait next year	55	22	7	14	12
Influenced by	Self	32	14	4	4	10	2.79	3	0.42
	Non-self	58	16	7	16	19
Self-declared maturity	Not mature	28	6	3	9	10	3.61	3	0.31
	Mature	62	24	8	11	19

The table shows the frequencies of study participants categorized by demographic characteristics and other parameters related to joining medicine in the identified clusters.

MBBS: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.