Table 5.

NT Department of Health clinic clusters, characterised by staff employment stability indicators, geographical remoteness and socioeconomic disadvantage, 2011–2015

	Mean			SD
Cluster no	1	2	3	1	2	3
No of clinics	9	16	19	9	16	19
Average*
Staff count	10.2	4.3	2.8	4.6	2.3	0.9
Staff exits	2.2	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.5	0.3
Turnover rate	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Stability rate	0.5	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Agency nurse proportion	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Within-clinic SD†
Staff count	1.7	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.3	0.4
Staff exits	2.2	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.4	0.3
Turnover rate	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1
Stability rate	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1
Agency nurse proportion	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1
Time-invariant
Population (2015)	1391	505	338	1012	395	229
Index of relative socioeconomic advantage and disadvantage	652	746	709	84	122	137
Google distance to darwin or alice springs	313	267	332	222	167	220
Predominantly non-aboriginal: % (count)	0.0	6.3	15.8	0	1	3

*Based on calculating a single average per clinic over the recording period.

†Based on calculating a single SD per clinic over the recording period.

NT, Northern Territory.