Physician career satisfaction within specialties

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics on Control Variables, Age Through Foreign Medical School Graduate

Variable/Description	Frequency	Percent	Mean satisfaction score	p-values for uni-variable regression model F-test
Entire Sample	6,590	100.0	0.28
age <35	388	5.9	0.37	0.1223 for 6 age groups
age 35 to 44	2026	30.7	0.30
age 45 to 54	2256	34.2	0.23
age 55 to 64	1357	20.6	0.31
age 65 to 74	448	6.8	0.34
age 75+	115	1.7	0.31
White non-Hispanic	4850	73.6	0.30	0.0001 for 5 race categories
African-American non-Hispanic	275	4.2	0.13
Hispanic all races	338	5.1	0.23
all other, non-Hispanic	858	13.0	0.29
missing race	269	4.1	0.08
gender male	4746	72.0	0.29	0.5216 for 2 genders
gender female	1844	28.0	0.27
New England	531	8.1	0.25	0.0220 for 9 regions
Middle Atlantic	1005	15.3	0.23
East North Central	1095	16.6	0.30
West North Central	220	3.3	0.39
South Atlantic	1400	21.2	0.24
East South Central	243	3.7	0.43
West South Central	698	10.6	0.32
Mountain	414	6.3	0.29
Pacific	984	14.9	0.29
rural/town	815	12.4	0.30	0.6307
board certified	6001	91.1	0.29	0.0244
foreign medical school graduate	1343	20.4	0.23	0.1003

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