Table 2.

Distribution of educational capital within different speciality groups

	Total		Surgical		Primary care		Internal medicine		Psychiatry		Hospital service
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Parents’ highest education
Secondary school	46	18	13	16	11	17	14	20	5	24	3	17	0.878
University	170	66	57	69	47	71	43	61	12	57	11	61
Doctoral studies	41	16	12	15	8	12	13	19	4	19	4	22
Physician parent
Yes	165	76	56	77	44	80	44	77	12	67	9	69	0.751
No	51	24	17	23	11	20	13	23	6	33	4	31
Type of school
Public school	231	88	74	88	63	94	61	86	17	81	16	84	0.334
Private school/other	31	12	10	12	4	6	10	14	4	19	3	16
Upper secondary programme
Natural science	171	66	54	64	45	68	49	70	10	48	13	72	0.175
Social science	49	19	16	19	11	17	10	14	10	48	2	11
Technical/other	39	15	14	17	10	15	11	16	1	5	3	17
Grades
20.0–19.0	106	42	38	46	25	40	29	41	8	40	6	35	0.901
18.99–0.0	146	58	44	54	38	60	41	59	12	60	11	65
SweSat results
2.0–1.8	151	66	48	70	39	63	41	64	15	83	8	47	0.216
1.7–1.0	79	34	21	30	23	37	23	36	3	17	9	53
Previous higher education
None	103	39	31	37	28	42	27	39	5	24	12	63	0.075
Up to 3 years	110	42	40	48	23	34	30	43	14	67	3	16
3 years or more	48	18	13	15	16	24	13	19	2	9	4	21
Research education
Yes	35	13	74	88	62	92	57	80	19	90	15	79	0.199
No	227	87	10	12	5	7	14	20	2	9	4	21
Total	262	100	84	100	67	100	71	100	21	100	19	100

Monte Carlo and Fischer’s exact test were used for comparisons between groups