Liberal Health Professionals: average ages, male/female share
Description
This dataset is one of the sources of data visualisations available on the [Liberal Health Professionals] website(https://data.ameli.fr/pages/data-professionnels-sante-liberaux/).
### General information:
The liberal health professions available in this dataset are:
* the **doctors** (with more than twenty medical specialties);
* dental surgeons** (including dentofacial orthopaedic specialists – ODF);
* the **women**;
* medical assistants with five professions: **nurses, massage therapists, speech therapists, orthoptists, pedicures-podologists**.
They are health professionals active on 31 December of the year concerned and:
* exercising their activity as a liberal;
* in metropolitan France, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Reunion, Martinique and Mayotte;
* having received at least EUR 1 in fees;
* whether they are contracted with the Sickness Insurance or not (when they generate a prescription reimbursed by the Sickness Insurance);
* professionals in employment-retirement cumulation are counted in the workforce as long as they meet the previous conditions.
This dataset presents demographic information about liberal healthcare professionals such as:
*average ages:
* women;
* men;
* global;
* share of women;
* share of men;
* share 60 years of age and older;
* share of under 60s.
This dataset is complementary to the following dataset: [Liberal health professionals: number and density by age group, sex and territory (department, region)](https://data.ameli.fr/explore/dataset/demographie-effectifs-et-les-densites/information/?disjunctive.profession_sante&disjunctive.region&disjunctive.departement&disjunctive.libelle_classe_age&disjunctive.libelle_sexe).
Only the national level is available for this data.
The data are derived from the National Health Data System (NSDS). For more information (source, field, definitions of modalities), visit the [Method](https://data.ameli.fr/pages/data-professionnels-sante-liberaux-methode/) page of this site.
### Data update:
The data proposed for download in the “Export” tab is updated every year (data from the whole of France since 2010).
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https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/8bf016b8-f6af-4a19-9abe-9803bae146cf |
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https://www.data.gouv.fr/api/1/datasets/r/d536bf89-b92a-41b3-8771-6043dde09f26 |
Tags
- professionnels-de-sante-liberaux