Metode og Data nr. 86 - DDA Samfund - Dansk Data Arkiv

DDA-2300 „Dental Care and
Dentists’ Services, 1995“
(Eli Schwarz)
The data for this survey were collected by the
Danish Gallup Institute as part of an omnibus
in weeks 34-37, 1995.
The survey examines dental care and dental
conditions and contains questions about:
Whether the respondent went to the dentist
regularly during school; what the respondent
did concerning his/her teeth from he/she left
school and till the age of 20; when the
respondent last went to the dentist; whether
the respondent visits the dentist in the spare
time or during working hours; whether the
respondent gets a wage deduction if he/she
visits the dentist during working hours;
whether the respondent has visited a dentist
regularly within the last five years; reasons
why not (e.g. financial conditions, laziness,
fear of the dentist, lack of time, long period of
waiting, illness, denture); which kind of
treatment the respondent had the last time
he/she went to the dentist; how many teeth the
respondent has left; own assessment of the
teeth; whether the respondent has sore or
bleeding gums in connection with tooth
brushing; whether the respondent has received
guidance to correct tooth brushing or use of
toothpick or dental floss in connection with a
dental visit within the last year; whether the
respondent has a denture and when he/she got
it; whether the denture was made by a dentist
or by a teeth technician, reasons for the
choice; and how the respondent feels in the
dentist’s waiting room and in the dentist’s
chair while the dentist gets ready for drilling
or a tooth cleaning.
File dimensions: 1002 cases, 82 variables.
DDA-2482 „Sexual Aspects in the
Careers of Doctors, 1993“
(Helle Jacobsen and Grete Korremann)
In 1992 the Nordic Council of Ministers
decided to implement a project on the
competence development, promotion and
leadership qualities of women. The project
formed part of the Nordic Council of
Ministers’ action programme for equal status
co-operation in 1989-1993. In this action
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programme the status and influence of women
in various occupations was emphasized as a
particularly important area.
The background of the project was that a
number of surveys have mapped out that
there are barriers to the promotion of women
and to women reaching leading position.
However, no analyses have been available
which have systematically examined the
careers of women and men in the same
occupation.
The medical profession was chosen
because there are relatively few women in top
jobs, while it is a career increasingly chosen
by women. This had resulted in statements
expressing fear of the future prestige of the
occupation, of it becoming necessary to fix
quotas of male students, of certain specialist
fields becoming understaffed, etc.
The survey had two main purposes:
First, it was to examine the careers of women
and male doctors in order to find out whether
there were any differences, which differences
and at what time in the professional career
these differences appeared. Previous surveys
of the working conditions and living
conditions of doctors had already shown that
there were differences in the family situation,
choice of specialist field, and number of
leading positions.
Secondly, the results of the survey were to
be used as the basis for an interview survey
which, by means of qualitative interviews,
should make an attempt at examining the
differences more closely in order to find out
what underlies the differences. Therefore,
emphasis was put on the doctors’ opinion of
why women and male doctors were in
different positions in the system. Unfortunately,
it turned out that is was not possible to
carry out the interview part.
The survey contains a comparison between
a group of women and men who graduated in
1982 in Denmark, Finland, Norway and
Sweden. Unfortunately, Iceland had to be left
out as there was not a sufficient number of
doctors who completed the questionnaire.
File dimensions: 1000 cases, 219 variables.