Table 1.
Characteristics of survey participants compared to all privately practicing gynaecologists registered with BÄK [49]
| Survey (n = 867) |
BÄK (n = 11,500) |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Frequency | Percent | Percent | |
| Sex | 856 | |||
| Female | 653 | 76.3 | 66.3 | |
| Male | 203 | 23.7 | 33.7 | |
| Age (in years) | 842 | |||
| ≤49 | 277 | 32.9 | 31.8 | |
| 50–59 | 419 | 49.8 | 41.1 | |
| ≥60 | 146 | 17.3 | 27.1 | |
| Work experience in gynaecological practice (in years) | 854 | |||
| ≤9 | 217 | 25.4 | – | |
| 9–19 | 346 | 40.5 | – | |
| ≥20 | 291 | 34.1 | – | |
| Geographical region | 849 | |||
| Easta | 145 | 17.1 | 13.3 | |
| Westb | 704 | 82.9 | 86.7 | |
Abbreviations: BÄK German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer)
aEast: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
bWest: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein
Missing values were not considered, thus the number of participants differs slightly between variables