Perception of Dental Professionals towards Biostatistics

Table 2

Distribution of survey respondents.

Demographic	Number (%) of respondents
Gender
Male	142 (55.04%)
Female	116 (44.96%)
Academic position
Staff	81 (31.4%)
PG students	177 (68.6%)
Career focus
Clinical, academic	149 (57.7%)
Clinical, nonacademic	45 (17.5%)
Research	58 (22.5%)
Others	6 (2.3%)
Department
Conservative and endodontics	32 (12.4%)
Oral medicine and radiology	28 (10.8%)
Oral pathology and microbiology	27 (10.5%)
Orthodontics	30 (11.6%)
Oral and maxillofacial surgery	25 (9.78%)
Pedodontics	26 (10.1%)
Periodontics	29 (11.2%)
Public health dentistry	27 (10.5%)
Prosthodontics	34 (13.2%)

Some percentages do not total 100 because of rounding.