General practitioner (family physician) workforce in Australia: comparing geographic data from surveys, a mailing list and medicare

Table 3 Headcount/FTE/FWE totals at different scales with percent deviations from DoHA baseline figures

	Overall		Metro		Inner regional		Outer regional		Remote		Very remote
	Headcount	FTE/FWE	Headcount	FTE/FWE	Headcount	FTE/FWE	Headcount	FTE/FWE	Headcount	FTE/FWE	Headcount	FTE/FWE
AMPCo doctor list (FTE)
Summed total	23,118	21,518	17,245	15,959	3,984	3,752	1,633	1,558	205	199	51	51
% Difference from DoHA	−13.13	30.55	−5.14	36.69	−22.41	17.36	−30.77	16.88	−60.95	1.53	−87.68	−37.65
AIHW survey (Overall from registers, FWE from survey)
Summed total	21,817	18,623	16,538	13,813	3,711	3,306	1,321	1,259	192	191	55	55
% Difference from DoHA	−18.02	12.99	−9.03	18.31	−27.73	3.41	−44.00	−5.57	−63.42	−2.55	−86.71	−31.62
Indirectly derived FWE
Summed total		19,688		14,593		3,426		1,443		162		63
% Difference from DoHA		−0.21		2.42		−6.56		−5.36		−22.10		−21.67
PHCRIS (Headcount from survey, FWE from DoHA)
Summed total	24,688	20,049
% Difference from DoHA	−7.23	−0.02
DoHA	26,613	16,482 FTE	18,180	11,675 FTE	5,135	3,197 FTE	2,359	1,333 FTE	525	196 FTE	414	81 FTE
DoHA	26,613	19,729 FWE		14,248 FWE		3,667 FWE		1,525 FWE		208 FWE		81 FWE

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