Table 1. Investigator characteristics according to centile of funding in fiscal year 2020.
Values shown in parentheses are percentages for categorical variables and IQR for continuous variables. IQR = inter-quartile range. ND = not displayed due to small cell size.
| Characteristic | Top 1% | Bottom 99% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total N (%) | 349 (1.0) | 34587 (99.0) | |
| Career Stage | Early | 30 (8.6) | 10567 (30.6) |
| Middle | 128 (36.7) | 12936 (37.4) | |
| Late | 162 (46.4) | 8273 (23.9) | |
| Gender | Female | 102 (29.2) | 11858 (34.3) |
| Male | 241 (69.1) | 21695 (62.7) | |
| Race | White | 277 (79.4) | 23264 (67.3) |
| Asian | 42 (12.0) | 7523 (21.8) | |
| Black or African-American | ND | 639 (1.8) | |
| More than One Race | ND | 418 (1.2) | |
| Ethnicity | Hispanic | 12 (3.4) | 1622 (4.7) |
| Not Hispanic | 306 (87.7) | 29513 (85.3) | |
| Degree | PhD | 166 (47.6) | 24620 (71.2) |
| MD | 116 (33.2) | 5238 (15.1) | |
| MD-PhD | 60 (17.2) | 3572 (10.3) | |
| Other | ND | 1157 (3.3) | |
| Funding in $Million | Median (IQR) | 4.8 (4.0 to 6.5) | 0.4 (0.3 to 0.7) |
| Number of RPG Awards | One | 69 (19.8) | 23268 (67.3) |
| Two | 86 (24.6) | 7571 (21.9) | |
| Three | 52 (14.9) | 2540 (7.3) | |
| Four | 60 (17.2) | 847 (2.4) | |
| Five or More | 82 (23.5) | 361 (1.0) |