. 2019 Oct 31;58(3):287–301. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2019-0116

Table 1. Demographic and other characteristics of occupational physicians in 2008 and 2016.

Elements		2008			2016			p-value

		N	Number	%^a	N	Number	%^a
Sex (men/women)		86	77/9	90/10	176	153/23	87/13	NS^b
Main line of businness	Private practitioners	86	64	74.4	181	131	72.4	NS^b
Main line of businness	Physicians in hospitals	86	22	25.6	181	50	27.6	NS^b
Age group	30’s	86	3	3.5	181	5	2.8	NS^b
	40’s		13	15.1		17	9.4
	50’s		22	25.6		56	30.9
	60’s and over		48	55.8		103	56.9
Length of clinical experience (AM ± ASD)		86	33.4 ± 9.7		181	32.3 ± 10.8		NS^c
Experiences as an OP (AM ± ASD)		86	13.4 ± 8.3		177	13.3 ± 8.4		NS^c
Monthly service hours as an OP (AM ± ASD)		86	6.2 ± 8.1		179	6.9 ± 12.4		NS^c

^aPercentage in total number of answers. ^bNot significant by χ² test, ^cNot significant by Mann-Whitney test. AM: arithmetric mean; ASD: arithmetric standard deviation; OP: occupational physician.