Australia and New Zealand Health Policy

Table 1 Average age and proportion of nurses in young age groups

From: Is there a crisis in nursing retention in New South Wales?

	Total working nurses				RNs only
Year	Number working	Average age	% aged <25	% aged 25–29	Number working	Average age	% aged <25	% aged 25–29
1993	40762	38.75	6.76	12.30	33200	39.45	6.30	11.12
1994	47946	39.35	4.99	10.66	40296	40.01	4.19	9.51
1995	50793	39.72	5.17	10.62	43116	40.29	4.44	9.85
1996	51497	40.08	4.95	10.72	44025	40.62	4.39	10.16
1997	53076	40.38	5.02	10.51	44735	40.91	4.48	10.08
1998	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1999	53376	41.80	3.10	9.67	45100	42.25	2.76	9.34
2000	54648	42.16	2.86	9.63	46249	42.54	2.63	9.47

Notes: The samples exclude nurses who do not report their age; this group forms less than 5% of the sample.

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