Physician career history

A subset of data from Singer and colleagues (1998) measuring length of employment in a sample of 812 physicians hired by community and migrant health centres. Physicians were followed for up to 33 months or until termination of employment. The measurement window began on January 1, 1990, and ended on September 30, 1992.

Usage

physicians

Format

A person-level data frame with 812 rows and 8 columns:

id

Participant ID.

start_date

Date of hire.

end_date

Date of departure.

entry

Number of years since hire the physician worked before entering the measurement window.

exit

Number of years the physician worked until departure.

censor

Censoring status.

part_time

Binary indicator for whether the physician worked part time.

age

Age at time of hire.

Source

Singer, J. D., Davidson, S., Graham, S., & Davidson, H. S. (1998). Physician retention in community and migrant health centers: Who stays and for how long? Medical Care, 38, 11981213. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-199808000-00008