General Practitioners’ Participation in a Large, Multicountry Combined General Practitioner-Patient Survey: Recruitment Procedures and Participation Rate

Table 3

Assessment of the hypotheses—average (and range) or percentage of the independent variables by three categories of participation rates.

Variable	Low response (); (≤20%)	Middle response (); (21–50%)	High response (); (>50%)
(H1) Average income GPs in	89,099; (17,500–135,000)	44,160; (10,750–115,000)	48,535 (); (10,800–150,000)
(H2) % with material incentive	82%	56%	30%
(H3) % salaried GPs	9%	33%	40%
(H3) % FFS	18%	0%	30%
(H4) Average survey load	3.2; (1–5)	3.3; (1–5)	1.7; (1–5)
(H5) Average % general trust	44% (); (20–66)	33% (); (21–74)	17% (); (8–29)
(H6) Average number of GPs	14,045; (810–53,790)	7,796; (1,220–7,045)	7,358; (180–39,000)
(H6) Average PC structure	2.29; (2.0–2.5)	2.23; (2.0–2.4)	2.09 (); (1.9–2.4)
(H6) % with support letter professional organization	73%	66%	50%
Average population in millions	19; (1,3–81,7)	17; (2,1–73,7)	10; (0,3–46,7)
Average GDP (EU28 = 100)	118; (47–170)	89; (38–280)	93; (21–310)

No data for Italy.