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

Table 5 AIHW survey, AMPCo doctor list and indirectly derived FTE/FWE are correlated at the SLA scale

				*AMPCo doctor list FTE*
AMPCo doctor list and AIHW workforce survey	*AIHW survey FTE*		Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.85(0.81,0.89)
		Inner Regional		0.87(0.78,0.94)
		Outer Regional			0.74(0.64,0.82)
		Remote				0.58(0.38,0.93)
		Very Remote					0.52(−0.42,0.91)
		Overall						0.88 (0.85,0.91)
Indirectly and AIHW workforce survey	*AIHW survey FTE*			*Indirectly derived FWE*
			Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.83(0.79,0.88)
		Inner Regional		0.79(0.70,0.89)
		Outer Regional			0.74(0.64,0.82)
		Remote				0.63(0.49,0.89)
		Very Remote					0.38(−0.64,0.83)
		Overall						0.84 (0.81,0.88)
AMPCo doctor list and Indirectly derived FWE	*Indirectly derived FWE*			*AMPCo doctor list FTE*
			Metro	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Remote	Very Remote	Overall
		Metro	0.74(0.69,0.78)
		Inner Regional		0.86(0.80,0.93)
		Outer Regional			0.86(0.77,0.92)
		Remote				0.86(0.52,0.97)
		Very Remote					0.35(−0.48,0.96)
		Overall						0.77 (0.74,0.81)

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