Medical labour force 1998
Provides statistics on all medical practitioners registered with the medical board in each State and Territory of Australia in December 1998. The number of characteristics of all registered medical practitioners are presented, including statistics showing employment in medicine by age, sex, type of practitioner, work setting, hours worked, country of initial qualification, residency status and geographic region. Also includes data on the number of students enrolled in and completing initial medicine courses, levels of international migration within the field and 1998-99 Medicare statistics.
ISSN 1327 4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 015 4; Cat. no. HWL 15; 70pp.; OUT OF PRINT
Full publication
Publication table of contents
- Preliminary material (83K PDF)
- Title page and verso
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of tables and figures
- Explanatory notes
- Sections
- Main features (125K PDF)
- Overall numbers
- Trends in numbers of medical practitioners from 1993 to 1998
- State and Territory distribution of medical practitioners
- Rural and remote medical workforce
- Female medical practitioners
- Hours worked
- Aboriginal medical practitioners and health service employment
- Medical education and training
- Temporary resident doctors
- Permanent migration and Australian Medical Council approvals
- Tables (181K PDF)
- End matter (112K PDF)
- Glossary
- References
- Related publications
- Internet access
- List of supplementary tables
Notes:
- Significant changes were made to the survey design in 2000. Data from the 1997 to 1999 surveys have been revised to enable time series comparisons.
- New table added August 2005.
Recommended citation
AIHW 2000. Medical labour force 1998. National Health Labour Force Series. Cat. no. HWL 15. Canberra: AIHW.