Table 2.

Sociodemographic characteristics of participants (total N = 166) by global region, 2017–2018

Characteristic/region	USA%	Europe%	EMR/SEA/AFR%	Total% (n)**
Sex: % female	56	60	53.8	56.4 (165)
Age group
25–34 years	6.6	5.7	2.6	5.5
35–44 years	17.6	25.7	35.9	23.6
45–54 years	26.4	25.7	33.3	27.9
55 + years	49.5	42.9	28.2	43.0 (165)
Current academic rank*
Professor or Prof Emeritus	48.9	45.7	23.1	42.2
Associate Professor	22.8	37.1	43.6	30.7
Assistant Professor	22.8	5.7	15.4	17.5
Other	5.4	11.4	17.9	9.6 (166)
Highest degree: % Ph.D.	96.7	94.3	87.2	94.0 (166)
Contract status
Tenured	57.6	71.4	51.3	59.0
Long term (7+ years)	7.6	2.9	20.5	9.6
Short term (3–6 years)	15.2	17.1	17.9	16.3
Shorter term (1–2 years)	19.6	8.6	10.3	15.1 (166)
% of salary offset required*
0%	34.4	67.7	68.6	48.7
1–25%	10.0	6.5	11.4	9.6
26–50%	13.3	9.7	17.1	13.5
> 50%	42.2	16.1	2.9	28.2 (156)
Primary identity*
Researcher	86.7	81.8	64.1	80.1
Practitioner	7.8	0.0	5.1	5.6
Educator/teacher	5.6	18.2	30.8	14.2 (162)

Italicized: more than 25% of cells have expected values < 5

USA United States of America, EMR Eastern Mediterranean Region, SEA Southeast Asia Region, AFR African Region, EUR European Region

*p < 0.01 **Ns are totals for all options of the variable, e.g. sex n = for males and females