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. 2020 Jun 3;54:58. doi: 10.11606/s1518-8787.2020054002011

Table 1. Socioeconomic factors of medical and nursing staff. National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE in Spanish), Mexico, Quarter IV, 2018.

  Total Medical Staff Nursing Staff
N 1,128,668 413,866 714,802
n 4,022 1,443 2,579
% 100% 36.7% 63.3%
  % [95%CI]
Age group (years)      
20–29 21.1 [19.3–23.0] 16.6 [13.8–19.8] 23.7 [21.5–26.0]
30–39 24.4 [22.2–26.8] 26.5 [22.3–31.1] 23.2 [20.7–25.9]
40–49 17.5 [15.7–19.4] 14.0 [11.4–17.0] 19.5 [17.2–22.0]
50–59 18.8 [16.8–21.0] 15.8 [12.8–19.3] 20.6 [18.1–23.4]
60–69 13.0 [11.2–15.0] 19.0 [15.5–23.1] 9.5 [7.8–11.4]
70+ 5.2 [4.1–6.5] 8.1 [5.9–11] 3.5 [2.6–4.7]
Schooling      
Auxiliary/Technicians 29.7 [27.4–32.0]   46.8 [44.1–49.6]
Bachelor degree 60.3 [57.7–62.9] 75.2 [70.7–79.3] 51.7 [48.9–54.5]
Specialty 10.0 [8.4–11.9] 24.8 [20.7–29.3] 1.5 [1.0–2.2]
Marital status      
Singleb 40.6 [38.1–43.1] 40.0 [35.8–44.3] 40.9 [38.0–44.0]
Has a partnerc 59.4 [56.9–61.9] 60.0 [55.7–64.2] 59.1 [56.0–62.0]
Employment characteristics      
EAP      
Employment 51.2 [48.6–53.8] 62.9 [58.8–66.9] 44.4 [41.3–47.5]
Quantitative underemployment 4.2 [3.3–5.3] 5.7 [4.0–8.0] 3.3 [2.4–4.5]
Qualitative underemployment 14.3 [12.7–16.2] 8.8 [6.9–11.0] 17.6 [15.3–20.2]
Underemployment 1.7 [1.2–2.4] 1.3 [0.7–2.4] 1.9 [1.2–2.9]
EIPd 28.6 [26.3–31.0] 21.3 [18.1–24.8] 32.8 [29.9–35.9]
Residence place      
Rural 6.1 [5.6–6.8] 4.7 [4.3–5.1] 7.0 [6.4–7.7]
Urban 93.9 [93.2–94.4] 95.3 [94.9–95.7] 93[92.3–93.6]
Degree of marginalizatione      
Very low 24.3 [23.0–25.7] 27.3 [24.8–30.0] 22.6 [21.3–24.0]
Low 32.0 [30.8–33.2] 31.1 [29.3–33.1] 32.4 [31.1–33.7]
Medium 14.2 [13.6–14.9] 13.6 [12.6–14.6] 14.6 [13.9–15.3]
High 21.7 [20.7–22.8] 20.0 [18.9–21.1] 22.7 [21.5–23.9]
Very high 7.8 [7.3–8.4] 8.0 [7.3–8.7] 7.7 [7.1–8.3]

ENOE: National Occupation and Employment Survey; EAP: Economically Active Population; EIP Economically Inactive Population

a p < 0.000; b Includes singles, divorcees and widowers; c Includes united and married; d Economically Inactive Population: includes people engaged in household activities, students, pensioners and the disabled. e Degree of marginalization: Mexico City, Coahuila, Baja California, Nuevo León (Very low marginalization); Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Colima, Chihuahua, Jalisco, State of Mexico, Tamaulipas (Low marginalization); Durango, Guanajuato, Morelos, Nayarit, Querétaro, Quintana Roo, Sonora, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas (Moderate marginalization); Campeche, Hidalgo, Michoacán, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán (High marginalization); Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca (Very high marginalization).