Table 1.

Percentage agreement with future career prospects statement, by specialty grouping and sex, for the latest survey of each graduation yeara,b

Sex and specialty groupingStatement: My future career prospects are goodc
Strongly agree, %Agree, %Neither agree nor disagree, %Disagree, %Strongly disagree, %Total, n (%)
Males and females
GPs14.152.124.17.72.06939 (100)
Hospital doctors18.056.217.66.51.810 943 (100)
Males
GPs15.648.724.68.22.92995 (100)
Hospital doctors20.556.516.45.21.56097 (100)
Females
GPs13.054.723.77.41.33944 (100)
Hospital doctors14.855.819.08.22.14846 (100)
  • a Includes results from the following surveys; 1974 and 1983 cohorts in 1998; 1996 cohort in 2003; 1988 cohort in 2004; 1993 cohort in 2010; 1999 and 2000 cohorts in 2012; 2002 and 2008 cohorts in 2013.

  • b Excludes doctors who were working in non-medical jobs or were not in paid employment.

  • c See Method for details of wording variation in the statement in some surveys.