Table 1.

Frequency table for the re-categorized demographic information on respondents to a mixed methods survey on ethically challenging situations encountered by veterinary team members globally in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 540).

Variable	Category	Number	Percentage %
Gender	Female	434	80.4
	Male	102	18.9
	Other	4	0.7
Role	Veterinarian	423	78.3
	Other	117	21.7
Hours worked	0–30	116	21.5
	31–40	186	34.4
	41–>50	238	44.1
Caseload	Companion animal clinical practice	367	68.0
	Other clinical practice	103	19.0
	Non-clinical role	70	13.0
Ethics education undertaken as part of qualification/degree	Yes	293	54.3
	No	161	29.8
	Don't recall	86	15.9
Ethics education or training to any degree following qualification/degree	Yes	280	51.9
	No	260	48.1
Region/group of countries	Australia and New Zealand	328	60.7
	USA and Canada	151	28.0
	Other: EU, Asia, Caribbean, Africa	61	11.3
Confidence in resolving ECS	Not confident at all/underconfident	79	14.6
	Confident enough that I can get by	231	42.8
	Reasonably confident/couldn't be more confident	230	42.6
Autonomy	Never/rarely	50	9.3
	Sometimes	110	20.4
	Most of the time/always	380	70.4