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

Table 4 AIHW survey, AMPCo doctor list and indirectly derived FTE/FWE are correlated at the DGP scale

				*AMPCo doctor list FTE*
AMPCo doctor list and AIHW survey	*AIHW survey FTE*		Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.97(0.95,0.99)
		Inner Regional		0.93(0.81,0.99)
		Outer Regional			0.95(0.79,0.98)
		Remote				0.83(0.55,0.99)
		Very Remote					0.60(−0.89,1.00)
		Overall						0.98 (0.96,0.99)
Indirectly derived FWE and AIHW survey	*AIHW survey FTE*			*Indirectly derived FWE*
			Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.87(0.81,0.93)
		Inner Regional		0.88(0.77,0.97)
		Outer Regional			0.91(0.64,0.97)
		Remote				0.82(0.56,0.99)
		Very Remote					0.78(0.26,1.00)
		Overall						0.90 (0.86,0.94)
AMPCo doctor list and Indirectly derived FWE	*Indirectly derived FWE*			*AMPCo doctor list FTE*
			Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.82(0.74,0.90)
		Inner Regional		0.95(0.93,0.98)
		Outer Regional			0.97(0.84,0.99)
		Remote				0.97(0.80,1.00)
		Very Remote					0.47(−0.80,0.98)
		Overall						0.87(0.81,0.92)

Not shown in this table are overall FWE/FTE correlations between in the PHCRIS survey and AIHW 0.82 (0.74, 0.88), PHCRIS survey, AMPCo doctor list 0.81 (0.72-0.88), PHCRIS survey and indirectly derived FWE 0.87 (0.80, 0.92).

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