Kate Baltrotsky was Research Assistant . Her role was to co-ordinate Steering Committee meetings , assist with the ethics application , oversee survey distribution , and draft the initial report .
The following associations assisted by distributing the survey to their members :
• Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association
• Australian Natural Therapists ’ Association
• Australian Naturopathic Practitioners ’ Association
• Australasian Association and Register of Practicing Nutritionists
• Australian Homoeopathic Association
Data were analysed descriptively using Qualtrics and Stata by an independent statistician .
Figure 1.2 Percentage of Practitioners by Age Category
Results 1 . Demographics Gender Respondents were predominantly female ( 1534 out of 1915 , ( 80.1 %)). Threehundred-and-fifty-three out of 1915 ( 18.4 %) were male , 21 out of 1915 ( 1.1 %) preferred not to say , 6 out of 1915 ( 0.3 %) identified as non-binary and 1 out of 1915 ( 0.05 %) preferred not to describe ( see Figure 1.1 ).
Figure 1.3 Location of Main Practice
Figure 1.1 Gender of Practitioners
Age Roughly one third ( 602 out of 1921 , 31.3 %) of respondents were in the age category 46-55 years old , followed by 526 out of 1921 ( 27.4 %) between 56-65 years old , 386 out of 1921 ( 20.1 %) between 36-45 years old , 149 out of 1921 ( 7.8 %) between 25-35 years old , 33 out of 1921 ( 1.7 %) over 75 years old and 7 out of 1921 ( 0.4 %) were less than 25 years old ( see Figure 1.2 ).
Main Practice Location The highest number ( 808 out of 1916 , 42.2 %) of respondents ’ main practice was in New South Wales , followed by 414 out of 1916 ( 21.6 %) in Queensland , 320 out of 1916 ( 16.7 %) in Victoria , 175 out of 1916 ( 9.1 %) in Western Australia , 119 out of 1916 ( 6.2 %) in South Australia , 44 out of 1916 ( 2.3 %) in Tasmania , 25 out of 1916 ( 1.3 %) in the Australian Capital Territory and 11 out of 1916 ( 0.6 %) in the Northern Territory ( see Figure 1.3 ).
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