VETERINARY PATHOLOGIST EMPLOYER DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY: ADDENDUM

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1 VETERINARY PATHOLOGIST EMPLOYER DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY: ADDENDUM Prepared for the America College of Veteriary, the Society of Toxicologic Pathology, ad the America Society for Veteriary Cliical Pathology Prepared by Lida Owes October 2008 SRL Study #7427

2 CONTENTS List of Exhibits...ii Distributio of Respodig Istitutios by Stratum... 1 Curret employmet of veteriary pathologists... 1 Aatomic pathologists... 1 Cliical pathologists... 1 Future Demad for Veteriary... 2 Norespose Weights... 5 i

3 EXHIBITS Exhibit A1. Distributio of Respodig Istitutios, by Stratum... 1 Exhibit A2a. Aatomic Pathologist Employmet, by Stratum... 1 Exhibit A2b. Cliical Pathologist Employmet, by Stratum... 2 Exhibit A3a. Aticipated Total Number of Pathology Job Opeigs ad the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Corporate... 3 Exhibit A3b. Aticipated Total Number of Pathology Job Opeigs ad the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Academia... 4 Exhibit A3c. Aticipated Total Number of Pathology Job Opeigs ad the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Diagostic Labs... 4 Exhibit A3d. Aticipated Total Number of Pathology Job Opeigs ad the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Zoos & Lab Aimal Programs... 5 Exhibit 4A. Respose Rates ad Norespose Weights, by Istitutio Size... 6 ii

4 The purpose of this addedum is to provide detailed iformatio regardig curret employmet of ad demad for veteriary pathologists by employmet sector. I additio, this addedum provides iformatio o the aticipated umber of job opeigs ad opeigs retiremet by employmet sector. The four employmet sectors are idustry (corporate), academia (ACAD), diagostic labs (DIAG), ad zoo ad lab aimal programs (ZLA). Distributio of respodig istitutios by stratum As Exhibit A1 shows, of the 141 orgaizatios that retured a questioaire, the largest percetage is i the corporate stratum (39%). Diagostic labs make up the ext largest group (26.2%), with academia ad zoo ad lab aimal programs accoutig for early equal umbers (17.7% ad 17.0% respectively). Exhibit A1. Distributio of Respodig Istitutios, by Stratum TYPE Number Percet Corporate % ACAD DIAG ZLA TOTAL % Curret employmet of veteriary pathologists Aatomic Two items ear the begiig of the questioaire before the separate aatomic ad cliical pathology sectios asked respodets to supply the umber of veteriary pathologists they curretly employ. For this addedum, the resposes are preseted by stratum. Exhibits A2a ad A2b summarize the resposes by stratum. Of the 133 istitutios that provided iformatio o the umber of aatomic pathologists employed, early all of them (94.3% overall) employ them, although the percetages vary somewhat by stratum. At the upper ed, all of the diagostic labs employ aatomic pathologists. At the lower ed, 87.5% of zoo ad lab aimal programs employ them. The corporate sector employs the greatest umber ( = 404), while zoo ad aimal lab programs employ the fewest ( = 75). Academia employs the highest average umber of aatomic pathologists (8.6), followed by corporatios (7.8), diagostic labs (4.7), ad, fially, zoo ad lab aimal programs (3.6). Cliical As Exhibit A2b shows, fewer istitutios employ cliical pathologists. Overall, 52.6% of istitutios hire them. Nearly all academic istitutios hire cliical pathologists (84%), while oly 20.5% of zoo ad lab aimal programs do so. STRATUM Exhibit A2a. Aatomic Pathologist Employmet, by Stratum % Employig Total # Average # 1 Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum Rage of Corporate % ACAD DIAG ZLA TOTAL % *Amog istitutios employig ay aatomic pathologists.

5 STRATUM Exhibit A2b. Cliical Pathologist Employmet, by Stratum % Employig Total # Average # Rage of Corporate % ACAD DIAG ZLA TOTAL % *Amog istitutios employig ay cliical pathologists. The greatest umber of cliical pathologists employed are workig i the corporate sector ( = 81), followed closely by academia ( = 73). Diagostic labs ad zoo ad lab aimal programs employ relatively few ( = 20 ad = 17, respectively). O average, however, corporatios, academia, ad zoo ad aimal lab programs hire about the same umber (3.5, 3.5, ad 3.4, respectively). Future demad for veteriary pathologists Two items o the questioaire asked respodets to estimate the umber of veteriary pathologists they would be hirig durig two differet periods: ad Additioal items allowed respodets to idicate how may of those opeigs would be. 1 Exhibits A3a through A3d display the umber of resposes to each item, the percetage of respodets who idicated they would have ay pathology opeigs durig the years asked about (ad the percetage idicatig that ay would be ), ad the average umber of opeigs durig those years (ad the average umber ) by type of positio ad stratum. Note that the total umber of ad the total umber of are sums of the umbers provided by respodets for each year ad each type of positio; therefore, they are highly depedet o the umber of respodets that completed a questioaire. Thus, these umbers are meat to be istructive oly. Naturally, they fluctuate quite a bit as the umber of respodets decreases ad should be viewed as idicators oly. Readers also should keep i mid that, orespose, these umbers are low compared to the actual umber of. Thus, the estimates were weighted to adjust for orespose. Give the respose rate varied by istitutio size (i.e., the total umber of pathologists employed), the orespse weights were calculated separately for each of four categories of istitutio size 0, 1 5, 6 10, ad 11 or more. Details about the orespose weights are give i Exhibit 4d at the ed of this documet. As idicated i the exhibits, respodets to both the aatomic ad cliical pathology portios of the questioaire were more likely to aticipate havig ay opeigs i tha i I the academic ad diagostic lab strata, the percet of istitutios with aticipated opeigs varies little from to Amog academic respodets, 81.8% of istitutios expect to have 1 Of all the items o the employer questioaire, this series about opeigs ad opeigs seemed most problematic for respodets, as evideced by the umber who left some or all of them blak. For the aatomic pathology portio of the istrumet, as may as 24% of the resposes had to be coded as missig/refused. For the cliical pathology portio, the percetage reached as high as 65.1%. It could be that those with zero expected ope chose to skip these items, but we do ot kow for certai. Therefore, the results for these items must be iterpreted cautiously. 2 Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum

6 Exhibit A3a. Aticipated Total Number* of Pathology Job Opeigs & the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Corporate Aatomic Pathology Cliical Pathology Opeigs i ope ope ope ope Weighted for orespose Opeigs i Weighted for orespose *Average umber of is the average amog those reportig ay ope. opeigs i , while 85.7% expect to have opeigs i Amog diagostic labs, 78.3% forecast ope i , while 79.3% expect to do so i I the corporate ad zoo ad lab aimal strata, the differeces betwee ad are greater. Amog corporatios, 69% expect to have opeigs i , compared to 79.1% i Amog zoo ad lab aimal programs, 40% expect to have opeigs i This percetage is expected to icrease to 65% by The percet of opeigs amog aatomic pathology retiremet is higher for tha for all strata. Amog corporate istitutios, 31.6% of opeigs i will be retiremet, compared to 51.2% i With regard to academia, 42.9% of ope will be retiremet i , compared to 63.6% i Amog diagostic labs, 27.6% of opeigs i will be retiremet, compared to 60% i Zoo ad lab aimal programs expect the lowest percetage of opeigs retiremet 15% i ad 30% i The patter of opeigs ad opeigs retiremet is the same for the weighted data as for the uweighted data (e.g., if the uweighted data show more opeigs i , so do the weighted data). However, i some strata, the umbers ad percetages differ somewhat. For example, i the corporate sector, the uweighted data show that 69% of istitutios will have opeigs i Whe the data are weighted, that estimate drops to 62.5%. The uweighted data show 79.1% of corporatios will have opeigs i , while the weighted data show 76.9%. I the zoo ad lab aimal stratum, the uweighted data show that 40% of istitutios will have opeigs i , while the weighted data suggest oly 16.6% will; the uweighted percetage of istitutios with opeigs i is 65%, compared to a weighted figure of 77.8%. 3 Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum

7 Opeigs i Exhibit A3b. Aticipated Total Number* of Pathology Job Opeigs & the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Academia Aatomic Pathology Cliical Pathology ope ope ope ope Weighted for orespose Opeigs i Weighted for orespose *Average umber of is the average amog those reportig ay ope. As with the aatomic pathology opeigs, the percet of istitutios with cliical pathology opeigs is higher for tha for all strata. I the corporate stratum, 47.6% of istitutios expect to have opeigs i , while 75% forecast opeigs for I academia, the percet of istitutios with opeigs is expected to more tha double, from 42.9% for to 86.7% for Diagostic labs also expect i icrease i ope, with 22.2% expectig them i , compared to 37.5% i For zoo ad lab aimal programs, the percet expectig ope icreases from 16.6% for to 25.0% for Opeigs i Exhibit A3c. Aticipated Total Number* of Pathology Job Opeigs & the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Diagostic Labs Aatomic Pathology Cliical Pathology ope ope 4 Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum ope ope Weighted for orespose Opeigs i Weighted for orespose *Average umber of is the average amog those reportig ay ope.

8 Opeigs i Exhibit A3d. Aticipated Total Number* of Pathology Job Opeigs & the Subset Due to Retiremets, by Type of Positio: Zoos & Lab Aimal Programs Aatomic Pathology Cliical Pathology ope ope ope ope Weighted for orespose Opeigs i Weighted for orespose *Average umber of is the average amog those reportig ay ope. The percet of ope retiremet also icreases from to for three of the four strata. I , 12.5% of opeigs i corporate istitutios will be retiremet, compared to 29.4% i I academia, oly 16.6% of opeigs will be retiremet, while 78.6% will i Amog diagostic labs, the percet of opeigs icreases from 14.3% for to 33.3% for The oly declie i the percet of opeigs retiremet is i the zoo ad lab aimal program stratum, where 20% i are retiremet, compared to 16.6% i With respect to cliical pathologists, the differeces betwee the weighted ad uweighted data vary from stratum to stratum. I the corporate stratum, there is little differece i the weighted ad uweighted estimates with respect to the percet with opeigs ad the average umber of ope. However, the umber of istitutios ad the total umber of decrease slightly. I academia, the same patter holds. The differece betwee the uweighted ad weighted estimates is somewhat greater amog diagostic labs. The uweighted data suggest that 22.2% of istitutios will have opeigs i , while for the weighted data that percetage drops to 14.3%. Amog zoo ad aimal lab programs, the uweighted data show 16.6% of istitutios will have opeigs i Whe the data are weighted, that estimate drops to 7.8%. Whe lookig at the estimates by stratum, especially for cliical pathology opeigs, the umber of respodig istitutios is ofte small i some cases, fewer tha 10 respodets. Thus, the estimates should be iterpreted cautiously. Norespose weights As a result of orespose i the employer stratum, some of the estimates i the body of the report may be low, particularly statistics such as the umber of pathologists that will be hired or the umber that will be hired retiremet. As a cosequece, we calculated respose rates for four differet 5 Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum

9 istitutioal sizes ad created orespose weights for those four strata. The orespose weights are simply the iverse of the respose rate. These umbers are provided i Exhibit A4. Oce the estimates were weighted by the orespose weights, the weighted sample size was larger tha the actual sample size ( = 221). To adjust these weights so the weighted cases sum to the correct umber, the orespose weights were adjusted by the ratio of the actual sample size to the weighted sample size (141/221), resultig i the fial weights i Exhibit A4. These weights idicate that smaller istitutios had lower respose rates ad thus higher orespose ad larger weights. Therefore, if ay of the estimates preseted i the report vary by the size of the istitutio, the uweighted estimates will be iflueced more heavily by larger istitutios. However, whe the weights are applied, smaller istitutios will have a larger ifluece because they have larger weights. Exhibit A4. Respose Rates ad Norespose Weights, by Istitutio Size Istitutio Size: Total # Employed # Respodets # Norespodets Total Respose Rate Norespose Weight Fial Weight % % % or more % Veteriary Pathologist Employer Demographic Survey Addedum

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