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Table 1 Characteristics of sample.

From: Survey of doctors' opinions of the legalisation of physician assisted suicide

 

Participants

Refusers

Non Responders

Total

 

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

Male

Female

Total

Specialty

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

GP

118(46)

70(60)

188(51)

65(51)

25(61)

90(53)

64(45)

39(75)

103(53)

247(47)

134(64)

381(52)

Medical

60(23)

30(26)

90(24)

25(20)

8(20)

33(20)

30(21)

8(15)

38(20)

115(22)

46(22)

161(22)

Surgical

45(18)

2(2)

47(13)

22(17)

1(2)

23(14)

29(20)

2(4)

31(16)

96(18)

5(2)

101(14)

Psych

18(7)

10(9)

28(8)

4(3)

3(7)

7(4)

6(4)

0(0)

6(3)

28(5)

13(6)

41(6)

Other

15(6)

4(3)

19(5)

10(8)

2(5)

12(7)

10(7)

2(4)

12(6)

35(7)

8(4)

43(6)

Unknown

0(0)

0(0)

0(0)

2(2)

2(5)

4(2)

3(2)

1(2)

4(2)

5(1)

3(1)

8(1)

Total

256(69)

116(31)

372(51)

128(76)

41(24)

169(23)

142(73)

52(27)

194(26)

526(72)

209(28)

735(100)

  1. Note: Percentages within the body of the table are column percentages. Within the Total row of the table they are row percentages within supercolumns, with the exception of those also within the Total columns, which are row percentages between supercolumns. Eg 118/256=46%, 256/372=69% and 372/735=51%.