. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 6.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2018 Jan 11;54(3):334–340. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2017.10.026

Table 1.

Voluntary Separations at State Health Agencies as a Percent of Those Expecting to Retire and Those Considering Leaving for FY2015

Descriptive statistics	Separations overall (%)	Retirements (%)	Nonretirements (%)
Average	50	54	52
Median	49	50	48
SD	24	25	27
Min	8	22	5
Max	101	121	122
n^a	27	30	21

Number of states. Estimates were created by capturing actual separations (2016 ASTHO Profile), retirements (2016 Workforce Gaps Study), and intent to leave or retire (2014 PH WINS), and reconciling these estimates for states where all data points were represented.

ASTHO, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; FY, fiscal year; PH WINS, Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey.