Table 4.
Veterinary-treated events (VTE) in the farmers’ data (with unique identity) and the dairy-disease data (DDD) that were identified (recorded) also in the alternative database. Proportion of identified events per herd. Data were reported from farmers or obtained from the DDD in a study on baseline recording of disease events in Swedish dairy herds during January (n = 177), April (n = 157), July (n = 153) and October (n = 152) 2004.
| Veterinary categorya (number of herds) | Percentile |
p-Value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | 25th | 50th | 75th | ||
| VTE reported in the farmers’ data identified in the DDD | |||||
| Private (n = 47) | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.67 | 0.89 | 0.03b |
| State-employed (n = 115) | 0.33 | 0.62 | 0.83 | 1.00 | |
| VTE in the DDD identified in the farmers’ data | |||||
| Private (n = 45) | 0.80 | 0.93 | 1 | 1 | 0.04b |
| State-employed (n = 110) | 0.63 | 0.79 | 1 | 1 | |
a
Herds were divided based on whether they were located in a state-employed or private practitioner veterinary district.
b
Difference between veterinary category (herd proportions) were tested with Wilcoxon rank-sum test.