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released: 18 Jan 2008 author: AIHW

This report presents demographic and labour force statistics on the medical profession in Australia and trends in the number of employed doctors. It is based on the main findings of the 2005 national survey of registered medical practitioners. Information presented includes a national and state/territory overview of the number of medical practitioners, their geographic region and overall supply.

ISSN 1327-4309; ISBN 978 1 74024 748 1; Cat. no. HWL 41; 56pp.; $24.00

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Publication table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Half title and verso pages
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Symbols and other usages
    • Summary
  • Sections
    • Introduction
      • Medical practitioners in Australia
      • AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey
      • Other sources of data on medical practitioners
    • Registered medical practitioners
    • Medical practitioners employed in medicine
      • Age and sex
      • Field of medicine
      • Country of first medical qualification
      • Working hours
      • Work setting and sector
    • Supply of practitioners
      • Overall supply
      • Supply of clinicians
    • Regional comparisons
      • Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) regions
      • States and territories
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      1. Explanatory notes on the AIHW Medical Labour Force Survey
      2. Medical registration data
      3. Medicare data
      4. National public hospital establishments data
      5. Additional tables available from the AIHW web site
    • Glossary
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures

Notes and corrections

The current version of the publication is presented above. Previous versions of files that have been updated or corrected are presented below.

  1. (18 January 2008) Due to low response rate to the 2004 Medical Labour Force Survey in the NT, estimates for that jurisdiction for 2005 are based on responses to the 2004 survey weighted to 2005 benchmarks.
  2. (14/02/2008) Numbers of employed medical practitioners in 2001 in Table 9, and FTE rate for 2001 in Table 19 have been revised to correct the figures provided in the previous version. The associated text has also been amended to reflect the revised figures. 

Recommended citation

AIHW 2008. Medical labour force 2005. Cat. no. HWL 41. Canberra: AIHW.