Physicians Actively Working by Specialty and Activity Hours

Description

These datasets contain aggregated responses from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey for Physician and Surgeon and Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon licensees. The data are limited to physicians whose license was in an Active Status and who indicated they were actively working in a position that required their license as of April 3, 2025. The license renewal survey utilizes a cell-based weighting methodology to estimate the total count of licensed individuals and accounts for individuals that decline to provide a response or who have not yet taken the survey. The presented estimated counts were calculated by multiplying county level weighted percentages for each metric by the total count of active licenses within each county. If no physicians within a given specialty and county provided a response to the activity hours question, the statewide mode for that specialty was used. Note: Previous versions of this dataset utilized raw counts rather than a cell-based weighting approach and did not take into account whether physicians were actively working in their field. In addition, the previous version of this dataset (as of April 3, 2024) contained errors regarding the total number of “Unsurveyed” individuals within each county. For more information regarding this issue, please contact the Workforce Data team using the email address below.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
57 physician-survey-recl_xxn.zip https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/0d7d5e6d-abd5-400c-8a4d-ef9e5d8073c2/download/physician-survey-recl_xxn.zip
8 Data Dictionary for https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/2183fa79-9f97-4556-901e-919726489f28/download/patient-activity-hours.xlsx https://data.ca.gov/datastore/dictionary_download/d8cf6ee4-0dc3-4a5b-b2cb-4a686e582243
53 This dataset is a subset of data from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey. Responses are self-reported by the licensee at the time of licensure renewal. This dataset includes the weighted estimated number of physicians with an active license who are actively working in a position that requires their license, aggregated by county, primary specialty and average number of hours spent on Research, as of April 3, 2025. See Metadata tab in downloaded file for additional details about these data. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/47dea241-eaec-41a7-8abe-69ddede36a19/download/research-hours.xlsx
8 Data Dictionary for https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/47dea241-eaec-41a7-8abe-69ddede36a19/download/research-hours.xlsx https://data.ca.gov/datastore/dictionary_download/1bf9498c-1d7c-4406-93e5-0b8e2fe8c8ba
53 This dataset is a subset of data from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey. Responses are self-reported by the licensee at the time of licensure renewal. This dataset includes the weighted estimated number of physicians with an active license who are actively working in a position that requires their license, aggregated by county, primary specialty and average number of hours spent on Administration, as of April 3, 2025. See Metadata tab in downloaded file for additional details about these data. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/0e7b06a5-2015-423a-8f36-839a2fbabb40/download/admin-hours.xlsx
8 Data Dictionary for https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/0e7b06a5-2015-423a-8f36-839a2fbabb40/download/admin-hours.xlsx https://data.ca.gov/datastore/dictionary_download/7592976f-9584-4966-8349-dd41d8749bf3
53 This dataset is a subset of data from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey. Responses are self-reported by the licensee at the time of licensure renewal. This dataset includes the weighted estimated number of physicians with an active license who are actively working in a position that requires their license, aggregated by county, primary specialty and average number of hours spent on Training, as of April 3, 2025. See Metadata tab in downloaded file for additional details about these data. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/c8a35ae6-6a1f-4506-9333-39eb068d8142/download/training-hours.xlsx
8 Data Dictionary for https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/c8a35ae6-6a1f-4506-9333-39eb068d8142/download/training-hours.xlsx https://data.ca.gov/datastore/dictionary_download/f97a1083-ac3a-4e6b-8462-04c5b719513a
8 Data Dictionary for https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/bba0ad3b-b683-4ffa-8bfb-9829c8d097f2/download/other-hours.xlsx https://data.ca.gov/datastore/dictionary_download/203cfb18-539c-48e6-8f64-7c3bf6001761
57 physician-survey-o28lhpzb.zip https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/0d7d5e6d-abd5-400c-8a4d-ef9e5d8073c2/download/physician-survey-o28lhpzb.zip
53 This dataset is a subset of data from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey. Responses are self-reported by the licensee at the time of licensure renewal. This dataset includes the weighted estimated number of physicians with an active license who are actively working in a position that requires their license, aggregated by county, primary specialty and average number of hours spent on Patient Care, as of April 3, 2025. See Metadata tab in downloaded file for additional details about these data. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/2183fa79-9f97-4556-901e-919726489f28/download/patient-activity-hours.xlsx
53 This dataset is a subset of data from the HCAI Health Workforce License Renewal Survey. Responses are self-reported by the licensee at the time of licensure renewal. This dataset includes the weighted estimated number of physicians with an active license who are actively working in a position that requires their license, aggregated by county, primary specialty and average number of hours spent on Other activities, as of April 3, 2025. See Metadata tab in downloaded file for additional details about these data. https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/58deeba2-8c6b-4f10-a1c1-37549750f28c/resource/bba0ad3b-b683-4ffa-8bfb-9829c8d097f2/download/other-hours.xlsx

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  • activity-hours
  • fte
  • survey
  • osteopathic
  • hcai
  • provider
  • medical-board
  • responses
  • department-of-health-care-access-and-information
  • licensee
  • physician
  • workforce
  • osteopathic-board
  • clearinghouse
  • practice-location
  • md
  • healthcare
  • specialty

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