DATA ON NATIONAL HEALTH RESOURCES 

Characteristicsof Patients 

Treatedby .Podiatrists 

UnitedStates-1970 

From information collected in a national survey of podiatristsconductedby 

the National Centerfor Health Statistics in 1970, statistics are presentedon 

patients treated by podiatrists in the course of 1 week. Patients are 

statistically describedin terms of their sex, age,and geographicdistribution 

and by selected professional characteristicsof the podiatrists who treated 

them and by the clinical setting where they were treated, e.g.,private office, 

nursinghome,patient’s home,hospital, or nonhospitalclinic. 

DHEW Publication No. (HRA) 75-1809 

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 

Public Health Service 

Health Resources Administration 

National Center for Heaith Statistics 

Rockville, Md. August 1974 

Series 14 

Number14 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS 

EDWARD B. PERRIN, Ph.D., Director 

PHILIP S. LAWRENCE, Sc.D., Deputy Director 

JACOB J. FEiDMAN, Acting Associate Director for Analysis 

GAIL F. FISHER, Associate Director for the Cooperative Health Statistics System 

ELIJAH L. WHITE, Associate Director for Data Systems 

IAWO M. MORIYAMA, Ph.D., Associate Director for International Statistics .---. EDWARD E. MINTY, Associate Director for Management 

ROBERT A. ISRAEL, Associate Director for Operations 

QUENTIN R. REMEIN, AssociateDirector for Program Development 

PHILIP S. LAWRENCE, Sc.D., AC&g Associate Director for Research 

ALICE HAYWOODJnformation Officer 

DIVISION OF HEALTH MANPOWER AND FACILITIES STATISTICS 

. 

GLORIA HOLLIS, Acting Director 

SHELDON STARR, Acting Deputy Director 

HENRY S. MOUNT, Chief, HeaEth hanpower Statistics Branch . 

GLORIA HOLLIS, Acting Chief, Health Facilities Statistics Branch 

SHELDON STARR, Acting Chief, Technical Services Branch 

Vital and Health Statistics-Series 14-No. 14 

DHEW Publication No. (HRA) 75-1809 

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-2091 
CONTENTS 

Page 

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 

Patient Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 

The Patient and the Treating Podiatrist ................... 

Patient Demography ............................. 

Geographic Distribution ......................... 

AgeandSex ............ . .................. 

Treatment Setting .............................. 

List of Detailed Tables ............................. 6 

Appendix I. Technical Procedures ....................... 23 

Appendix II. Definition of Certain Terms Used in This Report ........ 27 

Appendix III. Survey Questionnaire ....................... 28 

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CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS TREATED BY PODIATRiSTS 

Hugo K. Koch, M.H.A., and Hazel M. Phillips, Division 

INTRODUCTION 

This report provides statistical information 

about patients treated by podiatrists in the 

United States in 1970. It is based on the findings 

of a nationwide survey of podiatrists conducted 

by the National Center for Health Statistics 

during January-March 1970. The survey 

information was collected through a 

self-administered questionnaire mailed to all 

licensed podiatrists in the United States. (A 

facsimile of the questionnaire is shown as 

appendix III.) 

This report on patient characteristics is the 

third report to issue from the survey findings. 

The first report offered a general demographic 

and professional profile ofthe 8,017 podiatrists 

in the United States who were active and 

inactive in their profession in 197O.r The second 

report focused on specific aspects of podiatric 

practice reported by the estimated 7,078 

podiatrists who were actively engaged in patient 

care at the time of the survey.* Highlighting 

significant findings from these reports: 

‘National Center for Health Statistics: Podiatry manpower: 

A general profile, Vital and Health Statistics, Series 14, No. 10, 

DHEW Pub. No. (HR4) 74-1805, Health Resources Administration, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, Aug. 1973. 

*National Center for Health Statistics: Podiatry manpower: 

Characteristics of clinical practice, United States, 1970, Vital 

and Health Statistics, Series 14, No. 11, DHEW Pub. go. (HRA) 

74-1806, Health Rqsources Administration, Washington, U.S. 

Government Printing Office, Mar. 1974. 

of Health Manpower and Facilities Statistics 

1. Of the 8,017 podiatrists estimated to be 

active and inactive in their profession at 

the time of the 1970 survey, 7,113 

(about 89 percent) were ,active; and 904 

(about 11 percent) were inactive-3 70 by 

reason of retirement and 533 for other 

reasons. 

2. The national ratio of active podiatrists to’ 

population was about 3.5 podiatrists per 

100,000 population. 

3. Podiatrists were unevenly distributed 

throughout the Nation. They tended to 

concentrate in areas of the greatest 

population density. Five States (New 

York, California, Pennsylvania, IIhnois, 

and Ohio) accounted for more than half 

(3,836) of the total number of active 

podiatrists. Of the four’ census regions 

(Northeast, South, West, and North 

Central), the Northeast had the highest 

concentration of active podiatrists (6.1 

podiatrists per 100,000 population); the 

South had the lowest (1.6 per 100,000). 

4. About 96 percent of alI active podiatrists 

were male. The median age of all active 

podiatrists was about 51 years; and the 

median number of years active in 

podiatry was about 21. 

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5. About 69 percent held active licenses in 

only’ one State. 

6. More than 99 percent of all active 

podiatrists (7,078) engaged to some 

extent in the direct care of podiatric 

patients. About 3.5 percent devoted 

some time to teaching in colleges of 

podiatry; about 7 percent engaged to 

some degree in podiatric research; and 

about 11 percent were at least partially 

active in administrative duties other than 

those connected with the care of patients 

(e.g., podiatry associations, college 

administration). 

7. A substantial majority (about 85 percent} 

engaged in solo practice. 

8. The typical practitioner devoted between 

38 and 39 hours per week to patient-care 

activity: It is noteworthy that roughly 30 

percent of all practitioners reported less 

than 35 hours per week of patient-care 

activity. 

9. The national median for patient visits to 

podiatrists was 71 visits per week per 

podiatrist. 

10. About 62 percent of the Nation’s 

practitioners employed supplementary 

personnel-administrative and technicalto assist them in practice. 

11. Practitioners did not show any marked 

tendency to specialize. About 90 percent 

of them engaged in general practice as 

their primary clinical activity. A 

substantial 22 percent reported no 

secondary activity. When a secondary 

activity was reported, it was most 

frequently either foot surgery or foot 

orthopedics-two close clinical adjuncts 

to general practice. 

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12. The following table ranks I3 patient 

services provided by U.S. podiatrists, 

from the most popularly rendered to the 

least, and shows the number and percent 

of practitioners providing the service. 

Type of service 

Palliative services ................. 

Orthopedic services ........... : . 

Prescription of drugs ............ 

Physical therapy treatment ........ 

X-ray services ................. 

Office surgery ................. 

Whirlpool baths ................ 

Ultrasonic treatment ............ 

Fitting special shoes ............. 

Low-voltage treatment ..... r ..... 

Hospit&surgery ............... 

Ultraviolet lamp treatment ........ 

Diathermy .................... 

13. A review of the clinical 

Number of Percent podiatrists 

-6,921 ,97.8 

6,386 90.2 

6,187 67.4 

5,686 80.3 

5,593 79.0 

5,437 76.8 

4,976 70.3 

4,524 63.9 

3,703 52.3 

2,584 36.5 

2,148 30.4 

2,123 30.0 

2,046 28.9 

settings in which 

U.S. podiatrists treated their patients 

reveals the following: 

Setting 

Private office .................. 6,611 93.4 

Patient’s home ............... ., 2,495 35.2 

Nursing home .................. 2,354 33.3 

Hospital (inpatient) .............. '1,637 23.1 

Hospital (outpatient) ............ 685 9.7 

Clinic (not associated with hospital) . . 1 255 1 3.6 

For this report, the third and final one in the 

series, the subject universe is the *459,285 

patients who were treated by the Nation’s 7,078 

patient-serving podiatrists in the course of P 

week’s clinical activity. The figure 459,285 is a 

total cumulation of the number of patients 

reported “last week” by each survey respondent 

and has been inflated to compenstate for 

nonresponse to the survey (appendix I). 

Certain cautions are urged in evaluating the 

data contained in the report. First, in reporting 

the number of patients seen during a week, 

patients with multiple visits were counted only 

once. Therefore, patient visits should not be 

confused with patients seen. Second, the week 

selected for reporting the number of patients 

treated was not the same week for all 

podiatrists. It varied with the individual 

respondent and could have been any weekly 

span between January and March 1970. Finally, 

when the term “podiatric patient” appears .in 

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the report, it means a patient treated by a 

podiatrist. The reader should not assume that 

this patient universe comprises all patients who 

were treated .for foot disorders and therefore 

gives a comprehensive picture of the prevalence 

of foot disorders in the United States at the time 

of the survey. An unknown number who 

suffered from foot disorders sought treatment 

elsewhere, chiefly of course from medical and 

osteopathic physicians. 

The report is accompanied by 10 detailed 

tables. Three appendixes support and clarify the 

text: appendix I explains the methodology 

involved in collecting and processing the survey 

data; appendix’ II defines certain terms used in 

the report; and appendix III is a facsimile of the 

survey questionnaire., 

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS , 

The Patiept and the Treating Podiatrist 

The national estimate of the number of 

patients treated weekly by podiatrists at the 

time of the 1970 survey was 459,285. From 

findings reported in tables 3, 6, and 9, it is clear 

that a significant majority of patients sought 

treatment by podiatrists in ‘solo practice. In 

weekly numbers, 383,085 patients, or about 83 

percent of all patients treated, were seen by solo 

practitioners. Only about 10 percent (46,233 

patients) were treated by podiatrists in the 

multiple-physician arrangements, i.e., partnerships and group practices. 

Patients strongly favored general practitianers 

over podiatrists with primary clinical specialties 

such as surgery or foot orthopedics. About 89 

percent were treeated by podiatrists whose primary clinical activity was general practice. This 

‘is evident,from information given in tables 4, 7, 

and 10. Data in these tables further indicate that 

the podiatrist whose primary activity was general practice and whose secondary activity was 

surgery enjoyed a larger patient load than 

practitioners with any other combination of 

primary and secondary activities. 

Patient Demography 

Geopaphic distribution.-Table 1 provides 

State figures for the weekly number of patients 

treated. The national total was 459,285 patients, 

an average of about 65 patients per week for 

each of the Nation’s 7,078 patient-serving podiatrists. Given a national- population of 

203,239,928 (according to the census enumeration of April 1, 19 70), there were then about 

226 podiatric patients for every 100,000 persons 

population. 

The patients of podiatrists were naturally as 

unevenly distributed as the podiatrists who 

treated them. They tended to concentrate in, 

areas of the greatest population density. Five 

States (New York, California, Pennsylvama, 

Illinois, and Ohio) accounted for 240,778 pa- I 

tients, or more than half the national total. Of 

all the active podiatrists in the four census 

regions-the Northeast, South, West, and North 

Central-the 2,991 located in the ,,Northeast 

treated the largest absolute number of patients 

per week (189,646), and the 989 located in the 

South treated a much smaller absolute number 

(71,410). With an average load of 72 patients 

per week, however, the Southern podiatrist was’ 

clinically more active than his colleagues in the 

other regions, where the weekly averages were 

63 patients in the Northeast, 64 in the North 

Central, and 65 in the West. Perhaps the 

practitioner in the South was at least partially 

compensating for the comparative scarcity of 

podiatrists in that area by treating more patients 

than his colleagues in the other regions. 

Age and sex--Patient distribution by sex is 

shown in tables 5-7. The national weekly total 

of female patients was 305,614; for male patients it was 153,671. Thus, there were roughly 

two female patients for every male patient, a 

ratio that varied little from region to region and 

State to State. 

Patient distribution by age of both sexes 

combined is shown in tables 2-4. The following 

table summarizes this distribution for the Nation 

as a whole. 

Percent Age interval distribution 

It is noteworthy that nearly one-third of all 

patients were 65 years and over, especially 

considering that only about one-tenth of the 

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general population were members of this age 

category. 

Of the nine census divisions, New England 

showed the highest proportion of patients aged 

65 years and over. Note especially (from table 2) 

the findings for the States of Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The example of the 

South Atlantic Division, which also showed a 

relatively high percentage of older patients, was 

chiefly due to patient information from Florida. 

In this State, probably owing to the larger 

number of retired persons, more than one-half 

of all patients were aged 65 years and over. 

In table 4, patients ‘in the three age intervals 

are tabulated according to the primary and 

secondary specialties of the podiatrists who 

treated them. In most cases, the influence of a 

specialty is self-evident. For example, podiatrists 

with a primary specialty of podogeriatrics predictably reported that the largest proportion of 

the patients they saw weekly were 65 years and 

over. The data make it clear, however, that the 

tendency to specialize was limited. Almost 90 

percent of podiatrists engaged in general practice; they treated almost 89 percent of all 

patients seen by podiatrists. In absolute numbers, therefore, the vast majority of podiatric 

patients in every age-sex category were treated 

by general practitioners. 

Patient distribution by age of males and of 

females is shown in tables 5-7. The national 

percent distribution may be summarized as 

follows: 

Age interval / ,a~~ntsI/ Male / Female 

Percent distribution 

All ages ............. 100.0 100.0 1 100.0 

16 years and under ......... 11.8 16.2 9.6 

17-64 years .............. 57.5 57.0 57.8 

65 years and over .......... 30.7 26.9 32.6 

It is evident that the female patient as a rule 

tended to be older than the male. Findings for 

the various geographic regions of the United 

States showed little substantial variation from 

this national pattern. 

Treatment Setting ‘, 

Tables 8-10 present information about the 

settings in which patients were treated. National 

findings may be summarized as follotis: 

Treatment setting Number of’ Percent 

patients distribution 

All settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 459,285 1 100.0 

Private office .. ; ........... 

Nursing home .............. 

Hospital (inpatient) .......... 

Hospital (outpatient) ......... 

Patient’s home ............. 

Clinic (not associated with 

hospital) ................ 

Other setting (e.g., schools, 

industrial plants) .......... 

I 

379,710 82.7 

28,838 6.3 

14,994 3.3, 

12,641 2.8 

9,972 2.2 

8,591 1.9 

4,538 1.0 

Far and ‘away the greatest number of patients 

were treated in the podiatrist’s private office. 

On a national scale, about 83 percent ‘of all 

patients sought treatment there. Of the 79,575 

patients treated in clinical settings other than 

the private office, the largest proportion (28,838 

patients) were treated in nursing homes. Treatment in such settings as the hospital, clinics 

outside the hospital, or in the patient’s home 

were reported with substantially less frequency. 

Regional variations from the national pattern 

were not pronounced except in the New England Division (composed of the States of Maine, 

Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island). There the proportioriabf patients treated in the private office was 

substantially lower (at 77 percent) than the 

national proportion of 83 percent, and the 

proportions for patients treated in nursing 

homes and in the patient’s home were more than 

double the national proportions. The relatively 

large number of New England patients treated in 

nursing homes and in their own homes is partly 

explained by the finding (reported in the section 

‘:Age and Sex”) that the New England Division 

had the highest proportion of patients aged 65 

years and over in the United States. 

The number of patients seen in the various 

treatment settings varied according to certain 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist. For 

example, it may be noted from table 9 that the 

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younger the podiatrist, the stronger his general 

tendency to treat patients in settings outside the 

private office. 

,From the information provided in table 10; a 

generally predictable relationship prevailing between treatment setting and the primary and 

secondary specialty of the podiatrist may be 

noted. Considering, for example, that almost 90 

percent of the reporting-podiatrists engaged in 

general practice as theirprimary clinical activity, 

it was, to be expected that the largest absolute 

number of patients treated in every setting 

would be treated by general practitioners. Predictably, podiatrists with a primary specialty in 

surgery tended to give treatments in the hospital 

inpatient setting, and those with a primary or 

secondary specialty in podogeriatrics understandably gave more treatments in nursing 

homes. . 

Another view of the extent of treatment in 

the various settings may be obtained from the 

average number of patients seen in each of them 

by the podiatrist who reported treating patients, 

in that clinical setting. A tabulation of these 

averagesreveals the folIowing: 

I 1 Average 

number 

patients/ 

podiatrist 

Private office . . . . . . 6,611 379,7 10 57 

Patient’s home . . . . . 2.495 9872 4 

Nursing home . . . . . 2,354 28,838 12 

Hospital (inpatient) . 1,637 14,994 9 

Hospital (outpatient) . 665 12,641 i8 

Clinic (not associated 

with hospital) . . . 255 8.591 1 34 

Thus, for example, though a substantial proportion (about one-third) of the Nation’s podiatrists 

rendered treatment in nursing homes and in the 

patient’s home, the average numbers of patients 

treated in these settings were only 12 per week 

in nursing homes and 4 per week in the patient’s 

home. It was clearly the 6,611 podiatrists 

treating in their private offices who, with an 

average of 57 patients per week, were responsible for most of the clinical treatment rendered 

by podiatrists in the United States at the time of 

the 1970 survey. 

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LIST OF DETAILED TABLES 

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Table 1. Number of podiatrists active in patient care and number of podiatric patients treated weekly per 100~000 population 

enumerated as of April 1,1970, according to area: United States, 1970 . . , . . . . . . . ,. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 

2. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by age of patient, according 

toarea: UnitedStates, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 

3. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated in all clinical settings by age of patient, according to 

geographic location and selected general characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . 9 

4. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by age of patient, according 

to selected clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

6, Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, 

according to area: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ‘. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 ’ 

6. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, 

according to area: United States, 1970 , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . , . 13 

7. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, 

according toselected clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

8. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to 

area: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 17 

9. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly dv clinical setting of treatment, according to 

geographic location and selected general characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . 19 

10. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to 

selected clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . , . . 21 

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Table 1. Number of podiatrists active in 

enumerated 

Area 

United States ...................... 

Alabama ............................. 

Alaska ............................... 

Arizona .............................. 

Arkansas ............................. 

California ............................ 

Colorado ............................. 

Connecticut ............................ 

Delaware ............................. 

District of Columbia ..................... 

Florida ............................... 

Georgia ............................... 

Hawaii .............................. 

Idaho ............................... 

Illinois .............................. 

Indiana .............................. 

Iowa ................................ 

Kansas .............................. 

Kentucky ............................ 

Louisiana ............................. 

Maine ............................... 

Maryland .. :. ....... : ................. 

Massachusetts .......................... 

Michigan ............................. 

Minnesota ............................ 

Mississippi ............................ 

Missouri ............................. 

Montana ............... ..) ........... 

patient care and number of podiatric patients treated weekly per 100,000 population 

as of April 1,1970, according to area: United States, 1970 

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Population Number of Number of Number _ -r Number of or enumerated podiatrists podiatrists patients patients 

as of active in per 100,000 treated weekly ’

rer 1OO;OOO 

April I,1 9701 patient care population population 

203,235,928 I 7,078 1 3.5 1 459,285 1 226.0 

3,&4,165 21 0.6 1,574 I 45.7 

302,173 2 0.7 .92 30.4 

1.772.482 38 2.1 2,548 143.8 

1223,295 18 0.9 881 45.8 

19,953,134 728 3.6 48,865 244.9 

2,207,259 70 3.2 3,810 172.6 

3.032‘217 182 6.0 10,425 343.8 

548,104 21 3.8 1,694 309.1 

756,510 61 8.1 5,491 725.9 

6,789,443 190 2.8 13,263 195.3 

4,589,575 59 1.3 .4,600 100.2 

769,913 5 0.6 238 30.9 

713,008 16 2.2 727. 102.0 

11 ,I 13,976 622 5.6 34,549 310.9 

5,193,669 149 2.9 . 8,270 159.2 

2,825,041 95 3.4 6,900 244.2 

2,249,071 43 1.9 3,164 140.7 

3,219,311 53 1.6 3,485 108.3 . 

3643,180 39 1.1 2,166 59.5 

993,663 22 2.2 1,320 132.8 

3,922,3?9 91 2.3 7,493 191.0 

5.689.170 412 7.2 25,045 440.2 

8;875,083 264 3.0 19,834 223.5 

3,805,069 76 2.0 5,486 144.2 

2,216,912 9 0.4 433 19.5 

4,677.399 85 I .8 7,013 149.9 

694,409 14 2.0 753 108.4 

Nebraska. ............................. 1.483.791 41 2.7 2,421 163.2 

Nevada .............................. 488,738 18 3.7 965 197.4 

New Hampshire ........................ 737,681 21 2.8 1,248 169.2 

New Jersey ...................... . .... 7,168,164 365 5.1 23,997 334.8 

NewMexico..................; ........ 1,016,000 20 2.0 1,388 136.6 

NewYork ............................ 18,241,266 1,233 6.8 80,380 440.7 

. North Carolina ......... i ............... 5,082,059 54 1.1 3,906 76.9 

North’Dakota .......... ; ............... 617,761 * 6 1.0 391 63.3 

Ohio.. ....... . ...................... 10,652,017 527 4.9 33,431 313.8 

Oklahoma ............................ 2,559,253 45 1.8 2,935 114.7 

Oregon ............ r ................. 2,091,385 34 1.6 1,831 87.6 

Pennsylvania .......................... 

Rhode Island .......................... 

South Carolina ......................... 

South Dakota .......................... 

Tennessee ............................ 

Texas ............................... 

Utah ................................. 

Vermont ............................. 

Virginia .............................. 

Washington ........................... 

West Virginia .......................... 

Wisconsin ............................. 

Wyoming ............................. 

II,793909 696 5.9. 43,553 369.3 

949,723 54 5.6 3,204 337.3 

2,590,516 14’ 0.5 1,187 45.8 

666,257 15 2.2 778 116.8 

3,924,164 32 0.8 2,556 65.1 

11 ,I 96,730 184 1.6 12,440 111.1 

1,059,273 24 2.3 1,653 156.1 

444,732 8 1.8 475 196.8 

4,648,494 55 1.2 4,649 100.0 

3,409,169 63 1.8 4,115 120.7 

1,744,237 44 2.5 2,654 152.2 

4,417933 

332,416 1 

136 

7 

3.1 

2.0 

8,632 

375 I 

195.4 

112.8 

1 U.S. Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Population, 1970. Number of Inhabitants, Final Report PC(1 )-Al, United States 

Summary, Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, Dec. 1971. 

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Table 2. Number and percent distribution 

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of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by age of patient, according to, 

-area: United States, 1970 

Area ~ ~

‘, 

Number 

11.8 57.5 

Alabama ..................... 1,574 138 956 480 100.0 8.8 60.5 30.5 . 

Alaska ...................... 92 12 70 10 100.0 1,3.0 76.1 10.9 

Arizona ..................... 2,548 336 1,366 846 100.0 13.2 53.E 33.2 

Arkansas .................... 881 53 578 249 100.0 6.0 65.7 28.3 

California .................... 48,865 4,819 27,810 16,236 100.0 9.9 56.E 33.2 

Colorado ................... .’ 3,810 439 2,334 1,046 100.0 11.3 61.: 27.6 . 

Connecticut .................. 10,425 1,261 6,172 2,992 100.0 12.1 59.2 28.7 

Delaware .................... 1,694 166 1,004 524 100.0 9.8 59.: 30.9 

District of Columbia ............. 5,491 450 3,498 1,543 100.0 8.2 63.i 28.1 

Florida ...................... 13,263 713 5.770 6,780 100.0 5.4 43.5 51 .I 

Georgia ..................... 4,600 418 2,919 1,263 100.0 9.1 63.5 27.5 

Hawaii ...................... 238 24 145 69 100.0 10.1 60.9 29.0 

Idaho ....................... 727 123 418 187 100.0 16.9 57.4 25.7 

Illinois ...................... 34,549 4,469 20,561 9,519 100.0 12.9 59.5 27.6 

Indiana ..................... 8,270 1,122 4,884 2,264 100.0 13.6 59.1 27.4 

Iowa ....................... 6,900 1,240 3,298 2.382 100.0 18.0 47.E 34.2 

Kansas ...................... 3,164 323 1,912 929 100.0 10.2 60.4 29.4 

Kentucky .................... 3,485 362 2,161 962 100.0 10.4 62.C 27.6 

Louisiana .................... 2.166 172 1,436 558 100.0 7.9 66.2 25.8 

Maine ...................... 1,320 136 686 498 100.0 10.3 51.8 37.7 

Maryland .................... 7,493 864 4,261 2,368 100.0 11.5 56.E 31.6 

Massachusetts ................. 25.045 2,326 13,162 9,557 100.0 9.3 52.E 38.2 

Michigan .................... 19,834 3,218 11,743 4,873 100.0 16.2 59.2 24.6 

‘Minnesota .................... 5,486 744 3,024 1,718 1OO.b 13.6 55.1 31.3 

Mississippi ................... 433 50 276 107 100.0 11.5 63.7 24.8 

Missouri ..................... 7,013 884 4,516 ‘1,613 100.0 12.6 64.4 23.0 

Montana ..................... 753 127 425 201 100.0 16.9 56.4 26.7 

Nebraska .................... 2,421 346 1,355 721 100.0 14.3 55.t 29.8 

Nevada ...................... 965 113 679 173 100.0 11.7 70.4 17.9 

New Hampshire ................ 1,248 184 637 428 100.0 14.7 51.c 34.3 

New Jersey ................... 23,997 2,231 14,747 7,019 100.0 9.3 61 .E 29.3 

New Mexico .................. 1,388 252 744 392 100.0 18.1 53.E . 28.3 

NewYork ................ .:. . 80,380 9,954 44,860 25,566 100.0 12.4 55.E 31.8 

North Carolina ................ 3,906 433 2,541 932 100.0 11.1 65.1 23.9 

North Dakota ................. 391 62 220 109 100.0 15.9 56.: 27.9 

Ohio ....................... 33,431 4,443 20,287 8,701 100.0 13.3 60.i ,26.0 

Oklahoma .................... 2,935 693 1,629 613 100.0 23.6 55.5 20.9 

Oregm; .................. 1,831 275 990 567 100.0 15.0 54.1 31 .o 

Pennsylvania .................. 43,553 4,852 25,403 13,298 100.0 11.1 58.: 30.5 

Rhode Island .................. 3,204 465 1,655 1,084 100.0 14.5 51 .i 33.8 

South Carolina ................ 1,187 98 -758 331 100.0 8.3 63.5 ‘27.9 

South Dakota ................. 778 133 408 238 100.0 17.1 52.4 30.5 

Tennessee .................... 2,556 367 1,539 651 100.0 34.4 60.2 25.5 

Texas ........................ 12,440 -1,349 7,851 3,241 100.0 10.8 63:l 26.1 

Utah ....................... 1,653 256 922 475 100.0 15.5 55.8 28.7 

Vermont .................... 475 63 275 137 100.0 13.2 58.0 28.9 

Virginia ..................... 4,649 540 2,675 1,434 100.0 11.6 57.5 30.9 

Washington .................... 4,115 428 2,306 1,381 100.0 10.4 56.0 33.6 

West Virginia .................. 2,654 440 1,613 601 100.0 16.6 60.8 22.7 

Wisconsin .................... 8,632 1,242 4,535 2,855 160.0 14.4 52.5 33.1 

Wyoming .................... 375 11 273 92 100.0 2.8 72.7 24.5 

United States ............. I459,285 54,207 264,287 140,791 100.0 

Percent distribution 

-

30.7 

8 
Table 3. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated in all clinical settings by age of patient, according to geographic location and selected general 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 

-

Geographic location and selected general characteristics 

of the treating podiatrists 

United States .............................. 

Geographic location 

Geographic region: 

Northeast ................................... 

North Central ............................... 

South ..................................... 

West ...................................... 

Geographic division: 

New England. ................................ 

Middle Atlantic .............................. 

East North Central ............................ 

West North Central ............................. 

South Atlantic. . : ............................. 

East South Central ............................. 

West South Central ............................. 

Mountain ................................... 

Pacific .................................... 

Standard Federal Administrative Region: 

Region1 .................................... 

Region II ................................... 

Region III ................................... 

Region IV ................................... 

Region V ................................... 

Region VI ................................... 

Region VII .................................. 

Region VIII ................................ 

RegionIX................................... 

RegionX .................................. 

Selected general characteristics 

Sex: 

Male .............. . ...................... 

Total YAge of patients 

patients 

treated 16 years 65 years 

i weekly and under and over 

Number 

459,285 54207 264,287 140,791 

189,646 21,471 107,598 60,578 

130,869 18,226 76,743 35,900 

71,410 7,306 41,465 22,639 

67,360 7,205 38,481 21,674 

41.716 4,434 22,587 14,695 

147,930 17,037 85,010 45,883 

104,715 14,494 62,010 28,211 

26,153 3,732 14,732 7,689 

44,939 4,122 25,040 15,777 

8,048 917 4,931 2,200 

18.423 2,267 11,494 4,662 

12,219 1,647 7,161 3,412 

55,141 5,555 31,320 18,263 

41,716 4,434 22,587 14.695 

104977 12,185 59,607 32,585 

65,536 7,312 38,455 19,769 

31,005 2,579 16,920 11,506 

110,202 15,238 65,035 29,929 

19,810 2,516 12,236 5,054 

19,498 2.79: 5,624 

7,760 1,016 4,582 2,160 

52,616 5,291 30,001 17,324 

6,765 83E 3,783 2,145 

446,393 52,807 256,609 136,978 

12,891 1,400 7,678 3.814 

61.511 9,517 36,037 

111,076 15,390 62,071 33;616 

143,718 15,941 81,866 45,911 

I1 5,070 10,748 67,948 36,374 

27,909 2.612 16,366 8,932 

302,969 34,742 174,311 93,916 

114,024 14.177 64,756 35,091 

42,291 5,288 25,220 11,784 

B3.085 44,442 Z19.018 119,625 

35,715 5,043 19,719 10,952 

10,518 1,395 6,022 3,102 

14,055 1,127 10,441 2,487 

7,414 945 4.037 2,433 

8.497 1,254 5,051 2,193 

Percent distribution 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

loo.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

11 .E 57.5 30.7 

. /, 

11.: 56.7 31.9 ' 

13.E 58.6 27.4. 

70.: 58.1 31.7 

10.: 57,l 32.2 

1o.c 54.2 35.2 

112 57.5 31.0 

13.E 59.2 26.9 

14.: 56.3 29.4 

9.: 55.7 35.1 

11.4 61.3 27.3 

12.: 62.4 26.3 

13.5 58.6 27.9 

10.1 56.8 33.1 

10.6 54.2 35.2 

1 I.7 57.1 31.2 

11.; 58.7 30.2 

8.: 54.6 37.1 

13.6 59.0 27.2 

12.i 61.8 25.5 

14.: 56.8 28.9 

13.1 59.0 27.8 

10.1 57.0 32.9 

7 2.4 55.9 31.7 

11 .E 57.5 30.7 

10.9 59.6 29.6 

15.5 58.6 25.9 

13.9 55.9 30.3 

11.1 57.0 32.0 

9.3 59.1 31.6 

9.4 58.6 32.0 

11.5 57.5 31 .o 

12.4 56.8 30.8 

12.5 59.6 27.9 

11.6 57.2 31.2 

14.1 55.2 30.7 

13.3 57.3 29.5 

8.0 74.3 17.7-

12.8 54.4 32.8 

14.8 59.4 25.8 

. 

Female ..................................... 

Age: 

Under35yean ................................ 

3544years .................................. 

45.Myears .................................. 

%&years .................................. 

65 years and over .............................. 

Number of States licensed in: 

1State.. ................................... 

2states .............. ..* ................... 

3States or more .............................. 

Principal form of employment of the treating podiatrists: 

Self-employed: 

Solo practice. ...... : ....................... 

Partnership.. .............................. 

Group practice ............................. 

Employed by: 

Government organizations (including military) ........ 

Nongovernment organizations ................... 

Other ...................................... 

9 
Table 4. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by age of patient, according.to 

selected clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 

‘-rx 

Selected clmical characteristics of the 

treating podiatrist * 

Number Percent distribution 

United States ........... 459,285 54,207 264,287 140,791 100.0 IL 11.8 1 57.5 1 30.7 

Primary clinical activity: 

General practice ........... 4 10,583 47,136 235,949 127,496 100.0 11.5 57.5 31.1 

Surgery .......... .’...... 27,498 4,325 16,780 6,392 100.0 15.7 61.0 23.3 

Podogeriatrics ............. 5,084 198 1,925 2,961 100.0 3.9 37.9 58.2 

Podopediatrics ............ 1,264 389 565 309 100.0 30.8 44.7 24.5 

Podjatric dermatology ....... 34 8 21 5 100.0 23.5 63.0 13.5 

Roentgenology ............. 7 4 2 100.0 66.7 33.3 

Foot orthopedics, .......... 12,131 1,820 7,232 3,078 100.0 15.0 59.6 -25.4 

Other ................... 2,684 324 1,811 550 100.0 12.1 67.5 20.5 

Secondary clinical activity: 

No secondary activity ........ 79,710 8,173 47,079 24,458 100.0 10.3 59.1 30.7 

General practice ........... 24,333 3,262 ‘14,282 6,789 100.0 13.4 58.7 27.9 

Surgery ................. 157,520 19,873 91,427 46,220 100.0 12.6 58.0 29.3 

Podogeriatrics ............. 46,307 4.394 23,711 18,201 100.0 9.5 51.2 39.3 

Podopediatrics ............ 14,258 2,968 7,327 3,963 100.0 20.8 51.4 27.8 

Podiatric dermatology ....... 6.086 915 3,382 1,789 100.0 is.0 55.6 29.4 

Roentgenology ............ 4,544 487 2,738 1,319 100.0 10.7 60.3 29.0 

SFoot orthopedics ....... 1 ... 121,973 13,544 71,617 36,812 100.0 11.1 58.7 30.2 

Other .................. 4,553 590 2,724 1,240 100.0 13.0 59.8 27.2 

Number of weekly patient visits reported: 

Fewer than 50 visits ......... 59,948 6,032 36,255 17,660 100.0 10.1 60.5 29.5 

50-99 visits ............... 199,940 22,478 114,471 62,990 100.0 11.2 57.3 31.5 

100-149 visits ............. 129,214 16,242 72,102 40,870 100.0 12.6 55.8 31.6 

150 visits or more .......... 70,183 9,455 41,458 19,271 100.0 13.5 59.1 27.5 

Number of hours per week spent in 

1 

patient care activities: 

I-34 hours ............... 90,985 10,924 52,432 27,628 100.0 I?.0 57.6 30.4 

35-40 hours .............. 173,954 20,247 100,818 52,889 100.0 11.6 58.0 30.4 

41-49.hours .............. 106,531 12,256 60,954 33,321 100.0 11.5 57.2 31.3 

50 hours or more ........... 87,815 10,779 50,082 26,953 100.0 12.3 57.0 30.7 , 

Number of assistants employed: 

None .......... , ........ 123,229 11,728 7.1,332 40,168 100.0 9.5 57.9 32.6 

1 assistant ............... 145,465 16,483 84,145 44,836 100.0 11.3 57.9 30.8 

2 assistants ............... 110,353 14,437 63,057 32,859 100.0 13:l 57.1 29.8 

3 assistants or more ......... 80,239 11,559 45,754 22,926 100.0 14.4 57.0 28.6 

10 
. 

Table 5. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age _ of uatient. accordino to 

area: United States, 1970 

II I 

Total 11 Male patients I Female patients 

Area 

United States .... 

Alabama ............ 

Alaska ............. 

Arizona ............ 

Arkansas ........... 

California ........... 

Colorado ........... 

Connecticut ......... 

Delaware ........... 

District of Columbia .... 

Florida ............. 

Georgia ............ 

Hawaii ............. 

Idaho .............. 

Illinois ............. 

Indiana ............ 

Iowa .............. 

Kansas ............. 

Kentucky ........... 

Louisiana ........... 

Maine ............. 

Maryland ........... 

Massachusetts ........ 

Michigan ........... 

Minnesota ........... 

Mississippi .......... 

Missouri ............ 

Montana ............ 

Nebraska ........... 

Nevada ............. 

New Hampshire ....... 

New Jersey .......... 

New Mexico ......... 

New York ........... 

North Carolina ....... 

North Dakota ........ 

Ohio .............. 

Oklahoma ........... 

Oregon ............. 

Pennsylvania ......... 

Rhode Island ......... 

South Carolina ....... 

South Dakota ........ 

Tennessee ........... 

texas .............. 

Utah .............. 

Vermont ........... 

Virginia ............ 

Washington .......... 

West Virginia ......... 

Wisconsin ........... 

Wyoming ........... 

17-64 65 years Total 16 years 17-64 65 years 

years and over and under years and over 

Number 

459,285 153,671 24.900 87,516 41,256 305,614 29.307 176,771 99,536 

1,574 632 61 409 162 942 77 54f 319 

92 36 5 27 4 56 7 4: 6 

2,548 804 122 478 204 1,745 214 886 643 

881 338 30 197 110 643 23 381 139 

48,865 16,377 2,243 9,701 4,433 32,487 2,576 18,109 11,803 

3,810 1,199 204 734 262 2,611 227 1,601 784 

10,425 3,196 550 1,780 866 7,229 711 4,392 2,126 

1,694 603 74 376 153 1,091 92 628 371 

5,491 I ,498 201 937 360 3,993 249 2,561 1,183 

13,263 3,951 326 1,809 1,816 9,312 387 3,961 4,964 

4,600 1,733 197 1,182 355 2,867 221 1,737 909 

238 79 14 42 23 159 10 103 46 

727 244 61 137 46 483 61 281 741 

34,549 12,318 2,091 7,120 3,107 22,231 2,378 13,44-l 6,413 

8,270 2.981 547 1,704 731 5,289 576 3;181 1,532 

6,900 2,355 568 1,111 676 4.544 672 2,187 1.686 

3,164 1,218 154 759 305 1,946 170 1,153 623 

3,485 1,108 160 699 249 2,377 203 1,462 713 

2,166 784 86 555 743 1,382 85 881 416 

1,320 415 62 210 143 905 74 475 355 

7,493 2,491 402 1,372 718 5,002 462 2,890 1,650 

25.045 7,588 1,045 3,826 2,717 17,457 1,280 9,337 6,840 

19,834 7,052 1,476 3,972 1,605 12,781 ? ,743 7.771 3,268 

5,486 1,857 340 1,024 492 3.630 404 2,000 1,226 

433 207 24 141 42 226 26 134 66 

7,013 2,939 364 2,036 539 4,073 520 2,479 1,074 

753 1 275 57 146 72 478 70 279 129 

2,421 682 147 326 209 1,740 199 I ,028 513 

965 324 54 202 6% 641 59 478 104 

1,248 313 82 158 73 935 102 480 354 

23,997 7905 1,082 4,884 1,938 16,092 1,148 9,863 5,081 

1,388 462 129 233 101 925 123 511 291 

80,380 26,542 4,575 14,109 7,858 53,838 5.379 30,752 17,708 

3,906 1,527 194 1.039 294 2,379 239 1,502 638 

391 152 .37 79 36 239 25 141 73 

33.431 11,664 2,059 6,983 2,622 21,767 2,384 13,305 6,079 

2,935 1,059 307 544 208 1,876 387 1,084 - 405 

1,831 573 112 294 167 1,258 162 695 400 

43,553 13,593 2,178 7,812 3,603 29,961 2,674 17,591 9,695 

3.204 1,006 187 523 296 2,198 278 1,132 788 

1.187 521 41 389 91 666 57 369 239 

778 223 58 104 61 555 75 304 177 

2,556 938 177 542 220 1,618 190 997 431 

12,440 4,039 652 2,450 937 8,401 696 5,401 2,303 

1,653 573 129 299 145 7,080 127 623 330 

475 120 25 68 27 355 37 207 110 

4,649 1,659 247 952 460 2,990 293 1,723 974 

4,115 1,331 190 813 329 2,784 239 1,492 1,053 

2,664 879 202 492 186 1,775 239 1,121 416 

8,632 3.064 566 1,555 962 5,548 676 2,980 1,892 

375 223 7 182 35 152 4 90 57 

11 
Table 5. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, according to 

area: United States, 1970-Con. 

Area 

United States .... 

Alabama ............ 

Alaska ............. 

Arizona ............ 

Arkansas ........... 

California ........... 

Colorado ........... 

Connecticut ......... 

Delaware ........... 

District of Columbia .... 

Florida .. ., .......... 

Georgia ............ 

Hawaii ............. 

Idaho ........ ;. .... 

Illinois ............. 

Indiana ............ 

Iowa .............. 

Kansas ............. 

Kentucky ........... 

Louisiana ........... 

Maine ............. 

Maryland ............ 

Massachusetts ........ 

Michigan ........... 

Minnesota ........... 

Mississippi .......... 

Missouri ............ 

Montana ............ 

Nebraska ........... 

Nevada ............. 

New Hampshire ....... 

New Jersey .......... 

New Mexico ......... 

New York ........... 

North Carolina ....... 

North Dakota ........ 

Ohio- .............. 

Oklahoma ........... 

Oregon ............. 

Pennsylvania ......... 

Rhode Island ......... 

South Carolina ....... 

South Dakota ........ 

Tennessee ........... 

Texas .............. 

Utah ... i .......... 

Vermont ........... 

Virginia ............ 

Washington .......... 

West Virginia .......... 

Wisconsin ........... 

Wyoming ........... 

12 

Total Male patients Female patients 

patients 

treated 

weekly Total 16 years 17-64 65 years 

and under years and over Total 16 years 17-64 

and under years 

65 years 

and over 

Percent distribution 

100.0 33.5 5.4 19.1 9.0 66.5 6.4 38.5 21.7 

100.0 40.2 3.9 26.0 10.3 59.8 4.9 34.7 20.2 

100.0 39.1 5.4 29.3 4.3 60.9 7.6 46.7 6.5 

100.0 31.7 4.8 18.8 8.0 68.5 8.4 34.8 25.2 

100.0 38.3 3.4 22.4 12.5 61.7 2.6 43.3 15.8 

100.0 33.5 4.6 19.9 9:1 66.5 5.3 37.1 24.2 

100.0 31.5 5.3 19.3 6.9 68.5 5.9 42.0 20.6 

100.0 30.7 5.3 17.1 8.3 69.3 6.8 42.1 20.4 

100.0 35.6 4.4 22.2 9.0 64.4 5.4 37.1 21.9 

100.0 27.3 3.7 17.1 6.6 72.7 4.5 46.6 21.6 

100.0 29.8 2.5 13.6 13.7 70.2 2.9 29.9 37.4 

100.0 37.7 4.3 25.7 7.7 62.3 4.8 37.8 19.7 

100.0 33.2 5.9 17.6 9.7 66.8 4.2 43.3 19.3 

100.0 33.5 8.5 18.8 6.3 66.5 8.5 38.6 19.4 

100.0 35.7 6.1 20.6 9.0 64.3 6.9 38.9 18.6 

100.0 36.1 6.6 20.6 .8.8 63.9 7.0 38.5 18.5 

100.0 34.1 8.2 16.1 9.8 65.9 9.7 31.7 24.4 

1ilo.o 38.5 4.9 24.0 9.6 61.5 5.4 36.4 19.7 

100.0 31.8 4.6 20.1 7.1 68.2 5.8 41.9 20.5 

100.0 36.2 4.0 25.6 6.6 63.8 3.9 40.7 19.2 

100.0 31.5 4.7 15.9 10.8 68.5 5.6 36.0 26.9 

100.0 33.2 5.4 18.3 9.6 66.8 6.2 38.6 22.0 

100.0 30.3 4.2 15.3 10.8 69.7 5.1 37.3 27.3 

100.0 35.6 7.4 20.0 8.1 64.4 8.8 39.2 16.5 

100.0 33.8 6.2 18.7 9.0 66.2 ’ 7.4 36.5 22.3 

100.0 47.8 5.5 32.6 9.7, 52.2 6.0 31.1 15.1 

100.0 41.9 5.2 29.0 7.7 58.1 7.4 35.4 15.3 

100.0 36.5 7.6 19.4 9.6 63.5 9.3 37.1 17.1 

100.0 28.1 6.1 13.5 8.6 71 .9 8.2 42.5 21.2 

100.0 33.6 5.6 20.9 7.i 66.4 6.1 49.5 10.8 

100.0 25.1 6.6 12.6 5.9 74.9 8.1 38.4. 28.4. 

100.0 32.9 4.5 20.4 8.1 67.1 4.8 41 .I 21.2 

100.0 33.3 9.3 16.8 7.3 66.7 8.9 36.8 21.0 

100.0 33.0 5.7 17.6 9.8 67.0 6.7 38.3 22.0 

100.0 39.1 5.0 26.6 7.5 60.9 6.1 38.5 16.3 

100.0 38.9 9.5 20.2 9.2 61 .I 6.4 36.1 18.7 

100.0 34.9 6.2 20.9 7.8 65.1 7.1 39.8 18.2 

100.0 36.1 10.4 18.5 7.1 63.9 13.2 36.9 13.8 

100.0 31.3 6.1 16.1 9.1 68.7 8.9 38.0 21.8 

100.0 31.2 5.0 17.9 8.3 68.8 6.1 40.4 22.3 

100.0 31.4 5.8 16.3 9.2 68.6 8.7 35.3 24.6 

100.0 43.9 3.5 32.8 7.7 56.1 4.8 31 .I 20.2 

100.0 28.6 7.4 13.3 7.8 71.4 9.6 39.1 22.7 

100.0 36.7 6.9 21 .2 8.6 63.3 7.4 39.0 16.9 

100.0 32.5 5.2 19.7 7.5 67.5 5.6 43.4 18.5 

100.0 34.7 7.8 18.1 8.8 65.3 7.7 37.7 20.0 

100.0 25.2 5.3 14.3 5.6 74.8 7.8 43.7 23.2 

100.0 35.7 5.3 20.5 9.9 64.3 6.3 37.1 21 .o 

100.0 32.4 4.6 19.8 8.0 67.6 5.8 36.3 25;6 

100.0 33.1 7.6 18.5 7.0 66.9 9.0 42.2 15.7 

100.0 35.7 6.6 18.0 11.2 64.3 7.8 34.5 21.9 

100.0 59.6 1.8 48.6 9.2 40.4 1 .I 24.1 15.2 -
Table 6. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, according to area: United States, 

1970 

Total Male patients Female patients 

Geographic location and selected general patients 

characteristics of the treating podiatrists treated Total 16 years 17-64 65 years Total 16 years 17-64 65 years 

weekly and under years and over and under years and over 

Number 

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459,285 153,671 24.900 87,516 1 41,256 L I 305,614 29,307 176.771 99,536 

Geographic location 

Northeast ..... .' ............... 189;646 60,677 9.787 

I-r 

33,369 17,520 128,970 11,683 74.228 43,058 

North Central .................. 130,869 46,525 8,405 26.773 11,346 84,344 9,820 49.970 24,554 

South ....................... 71,410 23,969 3,381 14.086 6,502 47.441 3,925 27,379 16,136 

West ........................ 67,360 22,501 3,326 i 3,288 5,887 44,859 3,878 25,194 I 5,787 

Geographic division: 

New England ................. . . 41,716 12,637 1,952 6,564 4,121 29,079 2.482 16.023 10,574 

Middle Atlantic ................ . . 147,930 48,039 7,835 26,805 13,399 99,891 9,202 58.205 32,484 

East North Central .............. . . . 104,715 37,099 . 6,738 21,334 9,028 67,616 7,756 40,677 19,183 

West North Central ............. . . . 26.153 9,425 1,668 5,439 2,318 16,728 2,064 9.293 5,371 

South Atlantic ................ . . . 44,939 14,863 1,883 8,548 4,432 30,075 2,239 16.492 11,345 

East South Central .............. . . 8,048 2,885 422 1,792 672 5,163 495 3.139 I ,528 

West South Central ............. . . 18,423 6,220 1,076 3,746 I ,398 12,202 1,191 7,748 3,263 

Mountain .................... . . 12,219 4,104 762 2,410 ’ 932 8,115 885 4,751 2,480 

Pacific ...................... . . 55,141 la.397 2,564 I 0,877 4,955 36,744 2,994 20,443 13,307 

Standard Federal Administrative Region: 

Region I ........................ 47.716 12,637 1,952 6,564 4.721 29,079 2,482 16,023 10.574 

Region II ......................... 104,377 34,447 5,657 18,993 9,797 69,930 6,527 40,614 22,789 

Region III ....................... 65,536 ’ 20,723 3,303 11,941 5.479 44,813 4,009 26.514 14,290 

Region IV ....................... 31,005 10,618 1,180 6,211 3,228 20,387 1,399 10.709 8,278 

Region V ........................ 110,202 38,966 7,078 22,358 9,520 71,246 8,160 42,677 20,409 

Region VI ....................... 19,810 6,683 1,204 3,979 1,499 13,128 1.314 8,259 3,555 

Region VII ....................... i 9,498 7,194 1,233 4,233 1,729 12,304 1,560 6,848 3,896 

Region VII I ...................... 7,760 2,645 .491 1,544 610 5,115 527 3,038 1,550 

Region IX ....................... 52,616 I 7,584 2,433 10,423 4,728 35,032 2,858 19,578 12,596 

Region X ........................ 6,765 2,i a5 368 1,271 545 4,581 469 2,512 1,600 

Selected general characteristics 

Sex: 

Male .......................... 446,393 149.878 24,335 85,359 40.1 a4 296,515 28.471 171,251 96,794 

Female ........................ 72.891 3,793 564 2,157 7,072 9,098 836 5,520 2,742 

Age: 

Under 35 years .................... 61,511 24,804 4,658 14,883 5,264 36,707 4,859 21 ,154 10,694 

35-44 years ................... t .. 111,076 38,015 7,095 20,868 10,052 73,061 8,294 41,202 23,564 

45-54 years ...................... 143,718 47,149 7,374 26,564 13,211 96,569 8,567 55,302 32,700 

55-64 years ...................... 115,070 35,038 4,711 20,121 10,206 80.032 6,037 47.827 26,168 

65 years and over .................. 27,909 8,665 1,062 5,080 2,523 19,244 1,549 11,286 6,410 

Geographic region: 

==/I== 

Number of States licensed in: 

.

I 1 State ........................ 302,969 99,080 15,859 55,895 27,326 203,889 i 8,883 118,416 66,590 

2 States ........................ 114,024 39,452 6,583 22,570 10,300 74.572 7,595 42,186 24,791 

3 States or more .................. 42.291 15,139 2,458 9,051 3,630 27,152 2,830 16,168 8,154 

Principal form of employment: 

Self-employed: 

Solo practice ................... 383,085 122,596 20,259 68,156 34.1 ai 260,489 24.1 a3 150862 85,444 

Partnership .................... 35,715 12,004 2,353 6,257 3,394 23.711 2,691 13,462 7.558 

Group practice .................. 10,518 3,402 638 I ,883 881 7,116 757 4.139 2,221 

Employed by: 

Government organizations (including 

military) .................... 14,055 9,455 563 7,664 I ,228 4,600 564 2,777 1,259 

Nongovernment organizations ........ 7,414 2,835 491 1,506 839 4,579 455 2,531 1,594 

Other .......................... a.497 3,380 2.050 733 5,118 657 3,001 1,460 

13 
f / 

Table 6. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, according to area: United Stqtes, 

1970-Con. 

Geographic location and selected general 

characteristics of the treating Fodiatrists 

-

United States ................... 

Geographic location 

Geographic region: 

Northeast ........................ 

North Central ..................... 

South .......................... 

west ........................... 

Geographic division: 

New England ..................... 

Middle Atlantic .................... 

East North Central .................. 

West North Central .... .I. ........... 

South Atlantic .................... 

East South Central .................. 

Kcn::iT: CeY.‘. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 

Pacific .......... ., ............... 

Standard Federal Administrative Region: 

Region I ........................ 

Region II ........................ 

Region III ....................... 

Region IV ....................... 

RegionV ........................ 

Region VI ....................... 

Region VII ....................... 

Region VIII ...................... 

Region IX ....................... 

Region X ........................ 

Selected general characteristics 

Sex: 

Male ........................... 

Female .......................... 

Age: 

Under 35 years .................... 

3544 years ...................... 

4554 years ...................... 

55-64 years ...................... 

65 years and over .................. 

Number of States licensed in: 

1 State ................. .;-. ..... 

2 States ......................... 

3 States or more ................... 

Principal form of employment: 

Self-employed: 

Solo practice ................... 

Partnership .................... 

Group practice .................. 

Employed by: 

Government organizations (including 

military1 .................... 

Nongovernment organizations ........ 

Other ........................... 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

ioo.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

100.0 

Female patients 

II , I 

Percent distributiori 

33.5 19.1 9.0 66.5 6.4 38.5 21:7 L 

32.0 5.2 17.6 9.2 68.0 6.2 39.1 22.7 

35.6 6.4 20.5 8.7 64.4 7.5 38.2 18.p 

33.6 4.7 19.7 9.1 66.4 5.5 38.3 22.6 

33.4 4.9 19.7 8.7 66.6 '6.8 37.4 23.4 

30.3 4.7 15.7 9.9 69.7 5.3 38.4 25.3 

32.5 5.3 18.1 9.1 67.5 6.2 39.3 22.0 

35.4 6.4 20.4 8.6 64.6 7.4 38.8 18.3 

36.0 6.4 20.8 8.9 64.0 7.9 35.5 20.5 

33.1 4.2 19.0 9.9 66.9 5.0 36.7 25.2 

35.9 5.2 22.3 8.3 64.1 6.2 39.0 19.0 

33.8 5.8 20.3 7.6 66.2 6.5 42.1 17.7 

33.6 6.2 19.7 7.6 66.4 7.2 38.9 20.3 

33.4 4.7 19.7 9.0 66.6 5.4 37.1 24.1 

30.3 4.7 15.7 9.9 69.7 5.9 38.4 25.3 

33.0 5.4 18.2 9.4 67.0 6.3 38.9 21.8 

31.6 5.0 18.2 8.4 68.4 6.1 40.5 21.8 

34.2 3.8 20.0 10.4 65.8 4.5 34.5 26.7 

35.3 6.4 20.3 8.6 64.7 7.4 38.7 18.5 

33.7 6.1 20.1 7.6 66.3 6.6 41.7 17.9 

36.9 6.3 21.7 8.9 63.1 8.0 35.1 20.0 

34.1 6.3 19.9 7.9 65.9 6.8 39.1 20.0 

33.4 4.6 ‘19.8 9.0 66.6 5.4 37.2 23.9 

32.3 5.4 18.8 8.1 67.7 6.9 37.1 23.6 

33.6 5.5 19.1 9.0 66.4 6.4 38.4 21.7 

29.4 4.4 16.7 8.3 70.6 6.5 42.8 21.3 

40.3 7.6 24.2 8.6 59.7 7.9 34.4 17.4 

34.2 6.4 18.8 9.0 65.8 7.5 37.1 21.2 

32.8 5.1 18.5 9.2 67.2 6.0 38.5 22.8 

30.4 4.1 17.5 8.9 69.6 5.2 41.6 22.7 

31.0 3.8 18.2 9.0 69.0 6.6 40.4 23.0 

32.7 5.2 18.4 9.0 67.3 6.i 39.1 22.0 

34.6 5.8 19.8 9.0 65.4 6.7 37.0 21.7 

35.8 5.8 21.4 8.6 64.2 6.7 38.2 19.3 

32.0 5.3 17.8 8.9 68.0 6.3 39.4 22.3 

33.6 6.6 17.5 9.5 66.4 7.5 37.7 21.2 

32.3 6.1 17.9 8.4 67.7 7.2 39.4 21.1 

67.3 4.0 54.5 8.7 32.7 4.0 19.8 9.0 

38.2 6.6 20.3 11.3 61.8 6.1 34.1 21.6 

39.8 7.0 24.1 8.6 60.2 7.7 35.3 17.2 

14 

i 
Table 7. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, according to selected 

clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 

Female patients 

Seiected clinical characteristics 

of the treating podiatrist 

Number 

Primary clinical activity: 

General practice .......... 

Surgery ................ 

410,583 

27,498 

135,137 

10,200 

21,518 

2,118 

76,733 

5,975 

36,886 

2,107 

275,447 25,620 

17,298 1r2,207 

159,216 

10,805 

90.,611 

4,286 

Podogeriatrics ............ 5,084 1,719 86 678 954 3,365 111 1,247 2,007 

Podopediatrics ........... 1,264 568 205 261 702 696 184 305 207 

Podiatric dermatology ...... 34 14 6 6 2 20 2 16 2 

Roentgenology ........... 7 6 3 2 1 1 

Foot orthopedics .......... 12,131 4,627 814 2,806 1,007 7,504 1,006 4,426 2,071 

Other ................. 2,684 1,402 149 ‘1,054 199 1,282 174 757 351 

Secondary clinical activity: 

No secondary activity ........ 79,710 25,712 3,754 14,809 7,149 53,998 4,419 32,269 17,310 

General practice .......... 24,333 8,758 1,542 5,069 2,147 15,576 1,720 9,214 4,642 

Surgery ................ 157,620 54,347 9,217 31,038 14,092 103,173 10,656 60,389 32,128 

Podogeriatrics ............ 46,307 14,747 1,968 7,676 5.103 31,560 2,426 16,035 13,098 

Pddopediatrics ........... 14,258 5,355 1,379 2,546 1,430 8,903 1,589 4,781 2,534 

Podiatricdermatology ...... 6,086 2,156 471 1,186 559 3,931, 504 2,196 1,230 

Roentgenology ........... 4,544 7,606 188 1.075 344 2,937 299 7,664 974 

Foot orthopedics. ......... 121,973 39,343 6,174 23,102 7 0,067 82,630 7,370 48,515 26,745 

Other ................. 4,553 1,646 266 1,016 364 2,907 324 1,708 875 

Number of weekly patient visits 

United States .......... 459,285 153.671 24,990 87,516 41,256 305,614 11 29,307 1 176,771 1 99,536 

reported: 

Fewer than 50 visits ........ 59,948 18,896 2,734 11,245 4.917 41,052 3,298 25,010 12,743 

50-99 visits .............. 199,940 63,849 10,366 35,504 17.979 136,091 12,172 78,968 45,011 

loo-149 visits ............ 129,214 43.462 7.491 23,545 12,425 85,753 8,751 48,557 28,445 

150 visits or more ......... 70,183 27,465 4,309 17,222 5,934 42,718 5,146 24,236 13,337 

Number of hours per week spent in 

patient care: . I-34 hours .............. 90,985 30,153 4,981 16,932 8,240 60,832 5,943 35,501 19,388 

35-40 hours ............. 173,954 58,552 9,388 33,452 15,711 ‘I 15,402 10,859 67,366 37,f 78 

4149 hours ............. 106,531 35,019 5,642 20,104 9,274 71,512 6,615 40,850 24,047 

50hoursormore.. ........ 87,815 29,947 4,889 17,028 8,030 57,867 5,890 33.054 18,923 

Number of assistants employed: 

None .................. 123,229 40,517 5,313 23,192 12,012 82,712 6,415 48,140 28,157 

1 assistant Y ............. 145,465 47,271 7,642 26,786 12,843 98.7 94 8,841 57,358 31,995 

2 assistants .............. 110,353 37,048 6,507 21,050 9,491 73,305 7,930 42,007 23,368 

3 assistants or more ........ 80.239 28,836 5,436 16,487 6,910 51,403 6,121 29,266 16,016 

15 
Table 7. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly in all clinical settings by sex and age of patient, according to selected 

clinical characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970-Con. 

Total Male patients Female patients 

Selected clinical characteristics oatients 

of the treating podiatrist treated Total 16 years 17-64 65 years Total 16 years 17-64 65 years 

weekly and under years and over and under years and over 

Percent distribution 

United States . . _ . . , . . . . 

,Primary clinical activity: 

100.0 

=iF 19.1 9.0 

==lF 38.5 21.7 

_ General practice . . . ...... 100.0 32.9 5.2 18.7 9.0 67.1 6.2 38.8 22.1 

Surgery . . . . . . . . . ...... 100.0 37.1 7.7 21.7 7.7 62.9 8.0 39.3 15.6 

Podogeriatrics . . . . . ...... 100.0 33.8 1.7 13.3 18.8 66.2 2.2 24.5 39.5 

L-Podopediatrics . . . . ...... 100.0 44.9 16.2 20.6 8.1 55.1 14.6 24.1 16.4 

Podiatric dermatology . . . . . . 100.0 40.4 16.9 16.7 6.7 59.6 6.6 46.3 .6.7 

Roentgenology . . . . ...... 100.0 83.3 50.0 33.3 16.7 16.7 

Foot orthopedics . . . ...... 100.0 38.1 6.7 23.1 8.3 61.9 8.3 36.5 17.1 

Other . . . . . . . . . _ ...... 100.0 52.2 5.6 39.3 7.4 47.8 6.5 28.2 13.1 

Secondary clinical activity: 

No secondary activity . . . . . . 100.0 32.3 4.7 18.6 9.0 67.7 5.5 40.5 21.7 

General practice . . . . . . . . . 100.0 36.0 6.3 20.8 8.8 64.0 7.1 37.9 19.1 -

Surgery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 34.5 5.9 19.7 8.9 65.5 6.8 38.3 20.4 

Podogeriatrics . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 31.9 4.2 16.6 11 .o 68.2 5.2 34.6 28.3 

Podopediatrics . . . . . . . 100.0 37:6 9.7 17.9 10.0 62.4 11.1 33.5 17.8 

Podiatric dermatology . . . . 100.0 35.4 6.8 19.5 9.2 64.6 8.3 36.1 20.2 

Roentgenology . . . . . . . 100.0 35.4 4.1 23.6 7.6 64.7 6.6 36.6 21.4. 

Foot orthopedics . . . . . . . 100.0 32.3 5.1 18.9 8.3 67.7 6.0 39.8 21.9 

Other . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . 100.0 36.2 5.9 22.3 8.0 63.8 7.1 37.5 19.2 

Number of weekly patient visits 

reported: 

Fewer than 50 visits _ . . . . . . . 100.0 31.5 4.6 18.8 8.2 68.5 5.5 41.7 ‘21.3 

50-99 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 31.9 5.2 17.8 9.0 68.1 6.1 39.5 22.5 

loo-149 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 33.6 5.8 18.2 9.6 66.4 6.8 37.6 22.0 

150 visits or more . . . . . . . . . 100.0 39.1 S.? 24.5 8.5 60.9 7.3 34.5 19.0 

Number of hours per week spent in 

patient care: 

1-34 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 5.5 18.6 9.1 66.9 6.5 39.0 21.3 -

35-40 hours . . . . . . _ . . . . . . 100.0 5.4 19.2 9.0 66.3 6.2 38.7 21.4 

41-49 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 5.3 18.9 8.7 67.1 6.2 38.3 22.6 

50 hours or more . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 ‘5.6 19.4 9.1 65.9 6.7 37.6 21.5 

Number of assistants employed: 

None .................. 100.0 4.3 18.8 9.7 67.1 5.2 39.1 22.8 

1 assistant .............. 100.0 5.3 18.4 8.8 67.5 6.1 39.4 22.0 

2 assistants .............. 100.0 5.9 19.1 8.6 7.2 38.1 21.2 

3 assistants or more ........ 100.0 6.8 20.5 8.6 7.6 36.5 20.0 

, 16 
Table 8. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to area: United 

States, 1970 

Total Clinical setting 

patients Clinic treated Private Hospital Hospital (not associated Nursing Patient’s Other . Area 

United States ....... 

Alabama .............. 

Alaska ............... 

Arizona ............... 

Arkansas .............. 

California ............. 

Colorado .............. 

Connecticut ............. 

Delaware .............. 

District of Columbia ...... 

Florida ............... 

Georgia ............... 

Hawaii ............... 

Idaho ................ 

Illinois ............... 

Indiana ............... 

Iowa ................. 

Kansas ............... 

Kentucky ............. 

Louisiana ............. 

Maine ................. 

Maryland .............. 

Massachusetts ........... 

Michigan .............. 

Minnesota ............. 

Mississippi ............. 

Missouri .... : ......... 

Montana .............. 

Nebraska .............. 

Nevada ............... 

New Hampshire ......... 

New Jersey ............ 

New Mexico ............ 

New York ............. 

North Carolina .......... 

North Dakota ........... 

Ohio .................. 

Oklahoma ............. 

Oregon ............... 

Pennsylvania ........... 

Rhode Island ........... 

South Carolina .......... 

South Dakota ........... 

Tennessee ............. 

Texas ................ 

Utah ................. 

Vermont .............. 

Virginia ............... 

Washington ............ 

West Virginia ........... 

Wisconsin ............. 

Wyoming .............. 

weekly office (inpatient) (outpatient) with hospital) 9 :Ep 

home home setting 

28,838 1 9,972 4,538 

-I130 11 

40 14 38 

75 27 25 

3,554 862 

264 79 25 

898 273 70 

60 27 10 

212 72 6 

514 109 29 

158 41 174 

14 5 

35 21 

1,939 609 209 

358 82 207 

669 84 58 

183 17 \. - 186 68 6 

72 16 

76 93 

270 90 

3,897 1,395 32 

937 283 717 

486 104 

18 1 

209 77 33 

101 17 

123 104 14 

12 6 5 

99 31 

1,084 702 132 . 

28 16 4 

4,409 2,028 667 

216 178 146 

19 

1,601 671 299 

83 25 37 

68 27 8 

2,896 1,374 586 

286 107 32 

48 8 139 

19 12 20 

86 21 107 

587 94 98 

37 35 

20 16 

248 54 284 

277’ 61 

122 40 7 

1,016 105 51 

‘3 8 

459,285 379,710 

1,574 1,040 

92 92 

2,548 2,378 

881 731 

48,865 38,186 

3,810 3,072 

10,425 8,636 

1,694 1,475 

5,491 4,525 

13,263 12,276 

4,600 3,582 

238 203 

727 640 

34,549 29,548 

8,270 7,380 

6,900 5,754 

3,164 2,599 

3,485 2,969 

2,166 1,825 

1,320 1,105 

7,493 6,303 

25,045 18,135 

19,834 17,182 

5,486 4,319 

433 344 

7,013 5,313 

753 628 

2,421 2,106 

965 934 

1,248 1,116 

23,997 20,436 

1,388 1,295 

80,380 67,538 

3,906 2,922 

391 295 

33,431 27,921 

2,935 2,596 

1,831 1,548 

43,553 35,221 

3,204 2,674 

1,187 613 

778 712 

2,556 2,254 

12,440 10,758 

1,653 1,357 

475 423 

4,649 3,772 

4,115 3,437 

2,654 2,421 

8,632 6,932 

375 190 

Number 

14,994 12,641 8,591 

181 214 

54 24 

11 12 

2,355 1,680 1,591 

136 162 72 

340 155 53 

59 59 4 

23 417 235 

166 92 77 

247 337 61 

16 

16 

I,&55 471 429 

96 27 120 

322 72 

335 230 

47 93 114 

84 168 

46 

250 278 301 

832 530 223 

538 417 367 

158 38 382 

7 63 -

128 739 514 

7 

46 26 3 

7 1 

2 

826 673 144 

11 19 15 

1,877 2,567 1,295 

11 333 

39 37 

1,004 564 1,371 

108 49 38 

121 60 

1979 1,042 455 

29 28 47 

11 367 

15 

16 72 

435 444 24 

58 50 116 

16 

224 62 7 

105 224 12 

12 15 37 

339 147 41 

160 15 

17 
Table 8. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to area: United 

States, 1970-Con. 

Total 

Area patients 

treated 

weekly ~, ’ 

6.3 2.2 1.0’ 

8.3 0.7 

1.6 0.5 1.5 

8.5 3.0 2.9 

,7.3 1.3 1.8 

2.1 0.7 

ii:: 2.6 0.7 

3.5 1.6 0.6 

3.9 1.3 0.1 

3.9 0.8 0.2 

3.4 0.9 3.8 

5.9 2.1 

4.8 2.9 

5.6 1.8 0.6 

4.3 1 .o 2.5 

United States ....... 

Alabama .............. 

Alaska ............... 

Arizona ............... 

Arkansas .............. 

California ............. 

Colorado .............. 

Connecticut ............ 

Delaware .............. 

District of Columbia ...... 

Florida ............... 

Georgia ............... 

Hawaii ............... 

Idaho ................ 

Illinois ............... 

Indiana ............... 

lOWa ................. 

Kansas ............... 

Kentucky ............. 

Louisiana ............. 

Maine ................. 

Maryland .............. 

Massachusetts ........... 

Michigan ........... ., ... 

Minnesota ............. 

Mississippi ............. 

Missouri .............. 

Montana .............. 

Nebraska .............. 

Nevada ............... 

New Hampshire ......... 

New Jersey ............ 

New Mexico ............ 

New York ............. 

North Carolina ......... : 

North Dakota ........... 

Ohio ................. 

Oklahoma ............. 

Oregon ............... 

Pennsylvania ........... 

Rhode Island ........... 

South Carolina .......... 

South Dakota ........... 

Tennessee ............. 

Texas ................ 

Utah ........ : ........ 

Vermont .............. 

Virginia ............... 

Washington ............ 

West Virginia ........... 

Wisconsin ............. 

Wyoming .............. 

Percent distribution 

100.0 82.7 3.3 2.8 

100.0 66.0 11.5 13.6 

100.0 100.0 

100.0 93.3 2.1 1 .o 

100.0 83.0 1.2 

100.0 78.2 4.8 3.4 3.3 

100.0 80.6 3.6 4.2 1.9 

100.0 82.8 3.3 1.5 0.5 

100.0 87.1 3.5 3.5 0.2 

100.0 82.4 0.4 7.6 4.3 

100.0 92.6 1.3 0.7 0.6 

100.0 77.9 5.4 7.3 1.3 

100.0 85.3 6.7 

100.0 88.1 2.0 2.2 

100.0 85.5 3.9 1.2 

100.0 89.2 1.2 _ A*“3 1.5 

100.0 83.4 4.7 0:2 - 9.7 1.2 0.8 

100.0 82.1 4.3 7.3 5.8 0.5 

100.0 85.2 1.4 2.7 3.3 5.3 _ 2.0 0.2 

100.0 84.3 3.9 7.8 3.3 0.8 

100.0 83.7 3.5 5.8 7.0 

100.0 84.1 3.3 3.7 4.0 3.6 1.2 0.0 

100.0 72.4 3.3 2.1 0.9 15.6 5.6 0.1 

100.0 86.6 2.7 2.1 1.9 4.7 1.4 0.6 

100.0 78.7 2.9 . 0.7 7.0 8.9 1.9 

100.0 79.4 1.6 14.6 4.2 0.3 

100.0 75.8 1.8 10.5 7.3 3.0 1.1 0.5 

100.0 83.4 0.9 13.4 2.3 

100.0 87.0 1.9 1.1 0.1 5.1 4.3 0.6 

100.0 96.8 0.8 0.1 1.2 0.6 0.5 

100.0 89.4 0.2 8.0 2.5 _. 

100.0 85.2 3.4 2.8 0.6 4.5 2.9 0.61 

100.0 93.3 0.8 1.4 1.1 2.0 1.2 0.3 

100.0 84.0 2.3 3.2 ‘1.6 5.5 2.5 0.8 

100.0 74.8 0.3 8.5 8.1 .4.6 3.7 

100.0 75.5 10.0 9.5 4.9 0.3 

100.0 83.5 3.0 1.7 4.1 4.8 2.0 0.9 

100.0 88.5 3.7 1.7 1.3 2.8 0.9 1.3 

100.0 84.5 6.6 3.3 3.7 1.5 0.4 

100.0 80.9 4.5 2.4 ‘1.1 6.7 3.2 1.4 

100.0 83.5 0.9 0.9 1.5 8.9 3.3 1 .o 

100.0 51.7 1 .o 30.9 4.0 0.7 11.7 

100.0 91.5 1.9 2.5 1.5 2.6 

100.0 88.2 0.6 2.8 3.4 0.8 4.2 

100.0 86.5 3.5 3.6 4.7 0.8 0.8 

100.0 82.1 3.5 3.0 2.2 2.1 

100.0 89.1 3.4 4.2 3.4 

100.0 81 .I 4.8 1.3 0.2 5.3 1.2 6.1 

100.0 83.5 2.6 5.4 0.3 6.7 1.5 

100.0 91.2 0.5 0.6 1.4 4.6 1.5 0.3 

100.0 80.3 3.9 1.7 0.5 11.8 1.2 0.6 

100.0 50.7 42.6 3.9 0.7 2.1 

18’ 

L 
Table 9. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to geographic location and selected general 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 

Total Clinical setting 

Geographic location and selected general characteristics 

of the treating podiatrist treated Other 

weekly setting 

United States .......................... 459,28E 379,710 14,994 12,641 L 8,591 / 28,838 1 9,972 4,538 

Geographic location 

Geographic region: 

Northeast ................................ 189,646 155,284 5,947 4,996 2,218 13,664 6,019 1,519 

North Central ............................ 130.865 110,060 4,126 2.710 3,263 7,554 2,147 1,009 

South .............. .._ ................ 71,410 60,406 1,892 2,730 1,244 3,187 881 1,069 

West .................................. 67,360 53,960 3,029 2,206 1,866 4,433 926 941 

Geographic division: 

New England . : .......................... 41.715 32,089 : ,265 714 323 5,275 1,915 134 

Middle Atlantic ........................... 147.930 123,195 4,682 4,282 1,894 a.389 4,104 1,385 

East North Central ......................... 104,715 88,963 3,323 1,626 2,327 5,845 1,749 883 

West North Central ........................ 26,152 21,098 803 1,084 936 1,709 398 126 

South Atlantic ........................... 

East South Central ......................... 

44,939 

8.048 

37.889 

6,607 

1,004 

251 

1,626 

443 

-t 1 1,056 

114 

1,949 

420 

619 

101 

796 

113 

West South Central ........................ 18,423 15,910 638 661 74 818 161 160 

Mountain ............................... 12,219 10,495 448 286 203 520 197 72 

Pacific ................................. 55.141 43,465 2,581 1,919 1,663 3,913 729 870 

Standard Federal Administrative Region: 

Region1 ............................... 41,716 32,089 1,265 714 323 5,275 1,915 134 

Region II ............................... 104,377 87,974 2,703 3.241 1,439 5,492 2,730 799 

Region III .............................. 65,536 53,717 2.547 1,872 1,040 3.809 1,657 894 

Region IV .............................. 31,005 26.000 686 1,238 586 1,457 437 602 

Region V ............................... 110,202 93,282 3,481 1,664 2,710 6,331 1,853 883 

Region VI .............................. 19.810 17,206 648 680 89 846 176 164 

Region VII .............................. 19,498 15,772 630 1,007 517 1,185 282 105 

Region VIII ............................. 7,760 6,254 376 265 225 443 151 47 

Region IX .............................. 52,616 41,701 2,417 1.721 1,591 3,621 660 905 

Region X ............................... 6,765 5,717 241 240 72 379 110 a 

Selected general characteristics 

Sex: 

Male .................................. 446,393 368,802 14,642 12,524 8,506 27,894 9,636 4,389 

Female ................................ 12,891 10,908 352 . 117 a5 943 337 149 

Age: 

Under 35 years ........................... 61,511 43.398 2,569 6,244 3,032 3,624 782 1,862 

35-44 years ............................. 111,076 92,074 3,564 2,168 3,092 7,402 1,935 841 

45-64 years ............................. 143,718 121,475 5.227 2,073 1,266 8,937 3,487 1,253 

5564years ............................. 115,070 98.302 3,161 2,035 875 7,042 3,130 526 

65 years and over ......................... 27,909 24.461 473 121 326 1,833 639 57 

Number of States licensed in: 

1State ................................ 302,969 251,758 9,724 7,006 4,607 19,980 7,279 2,615 

2 States ................................ 114,024 94,267 4,017 3,508 1,992 6,652 2,139 1,449 

3 States or more .......................... 42,291 33,685 1,253 2,127 1,992 2,206 554 475 

Principal form of employment: 

. Self-employed: 

Solo practice .......................... 383.085 328.787 8,483 5,367 3,750 25,351 8,944 2,402 

Partnership ........................... 35,715 31,489 1,022 656 310 1,488 511 239 

Group practice .......................... 10,518 8,852 293 113 486 549 157 68 

Employed by: 

Government organizations (including 

military) ........................... 14,055 1,524 3.840 4,733 1,770 587 32 1,569 

Nongovernment organizations ............... 7,414 4.874 678 712 556 364 121 119 

Other ................................. 8,497 4.183 678 1,060 1.720 508 207 140 

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Table 9. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to geographic location and selected general 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970-Con. 

Total Clinical setting 

Geographic location and selected general characteristics patients 

of the treating podiatrist treated Private Hospital Hospital Clinic 

weekly office (inpatient) (outpatient) (not associated Nhyzeg ‘ttif” Other 

with hospital) st?ttNlg 

Percent distribution 

United States .......................... 100.0 82.7 3.3 2.E 1.9 5.3 2.2 1 .o 

/ 

Geographic location 

Geographic region: 

Northeast ............................... 100.0 81.9 3.1 2.E 1.2 7.2 3.2 0.8 

North Central ............................ 100.0 84.1 3.2 2.1 2.5 5.8 1.5 0.8 

South ............... : ................. 100.0 ti.6 2.7 3.8 1.7 4.5 1.2 1.5 

West .................................. 100.0 80.1 4.5 3.2 2.8 5.5 1.4 1 A 

Geographic division: 

New England ............................ 100.0 75.9 3.0 1.7 0.8 12.7 4.5 0.3 

Middle Atlantic ........................... 100.0 83.3 3.2 2.9 1.3 5.7 2.8 0.9 

East North Central ......................... 100.0 85.0 3.2 1.6 2.2 5.5 1.7 0.8 

West North Central ........................ 100.0 80.7 3.1 4.1 3.6 5.5 1.5 0.5 

South Atlantic ........................... 100.0 84.3 2.2 3.5 2.4 4.3 1 A 1.8 

East South Central ......................... 100.0 82.1 3.1 5.5 1.4 5.2 1.3 1.4 

West South Central ........................ 100.0 86.4 3.5 3.6 0.4 4.4 0.9 0.9 

Mountain ....................... ._ ...... 100.0 85.9 3.7 2.3 1.7 4.3 1.5 0.6 

Pacific ................................. 100.0 78.8 4.7 3.5 3.0 7.1 1.3 1.5 

Standard Federal Administrative Region: . 

Region1 ........................... .: .. 100.0 769 3.0 1.7 0.8 12.7 4.5 0.3 

Regionll ............................... 100.0 84.3 2.6 3.1 1 A 5.3 2.5 0.8 

Region III .............................. 100.0 82.0 3.9 2.9 1.6 5.8 2.5 1.4 

Region IV .............................. 

RegionV............................... 

100.0 

100.0 

83.9 

84.7 

2.2 

3.2 

4.0 

1.5 

1 .Q 

2.5 

4.7 

5.7 

1.4 

1.7 

1 .s 

0.8 

Region VI .............................. 100.0 86.9 3.3 3.4 0.5 4.3 0.9 0.8 

Region VII .............................. 100.0 80.9 3.2 5.2 2.7 6.1 1.5 0.5 

Region VIII ............................. 100.0 80.6 4.8 3.4 2.9 5.7 2.0 0.5 

Region IX .............................. 100.0 79.3 4.6 2.3 3.0 6.9 1.3 1.7 

RegionX ............................... 100.0 84.5 3.6 3.5 1.1 5.6 1.6 0.1 

Selected general characteristics 

Sex: 

Male .................................. 100.0 82.5 3.3 2.8 1 .s 6.3 2.2 1 .o 

Female ................................ 100.0 84.6 2.7 0.9 0.7 7.3 2.5 1.2 

Age: 

Under 35 years ........................... 100.0 70.5 4.2 10.2 4.9 5.9 1.3 3.0 

3544years ............................. 100.0 82.9 3.2 2.0 2.8 5.7 1.7 0.8 

45-54 years ............................. 100.0 84.5 3.5 1.4 0.9 6.2 2.4 0.9 

55-64 years ............................. 100.0 85.4 2.8 1.8 0.8 , 6.1 2.7 0.5 

65 years and over ......................... 100.0 87.6 1.7 0.4 1.2 6.6 2.3 0.2 

Number of States licensed in: 

1state ................................ 100.0 83.1 3.2 2.3 1.5 6.5 2.4 019 

2 states ................................ 100.0 82.7 3.5 3.1 1.8 5.8 1 .Q 1.3 

3 states or more .......................... 100.0 79.7 3.0 5.0 4.7 5.2 1.3 1 .l 

Principal form of employment: 

Self-employed: 

Solo practice .......................... 100.0 85.8 2.2 1 A 1 .o 6.6 2.3 0.5 

Partnership ........................... 100.0 88.2 2.9 1.8 0.9 4.2 1.4 0.7 

Group practice ......................... 100.0 84.2 2.8 1.1 4.5 5.2 1.5 0.7 

Employed by: 

Government organizations (including 

military) ........................... 100.0 10.9 27.3 33.7 12.6 4.2 0.2 11.2 

Nongovernment organizations ............... 100.0 55.7 9.2 9.5 7.5 4.8 1.6 1.6 

Other ................................. 100.0 49.2 8.0 12.5 20.2 6.0 2.4 1.7 

, 

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Table 10. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment. according to selected clinical 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970 

II 

?-^...I II . Clinical setting 

Selected clinical characteristics of 

the treating podiatrist 

Number -

Primary clinical activity: 

General practice ............ 

Surgery ................. 

410,583 

27,498 

342,862 

21,662 

- 12,904 

1,629 

10,272 

989 I 4,987 1,913 

26,211 

771 

9,334 

271 I4,014 262 

Podogeriatrics ............. 5,084 3,101 126 335 80 1,147 152 .143 

Podopediatrics ............. 1,264 1,177 9 28 15 24 11 

Podiatric dermatology ........ 34 31 1 1 1 

Roentgenology ............ 7 6 1 

Foot orthopedics ........... 12,131 9,639 281 766 639 515 174 118 

,Other ................... 2,684 1,234 45 250 957 168 29 

Secondary clinical activity: 

No secondary activity ......... 79,710 67,851 1,966 1,313 928 4,728 1,893 1,032 

General practice ............. 24,333 18,611 1,127 1,017 1,487 1,539 322 230 

Surgery .................. 157,520 131,283 5,495 5,280 2,747 8,834 2,565 1,316 

Podogeriatrics .............. 46,307 34,991 2,494 1,145 506 5,390 1,425 355 

Podopediatrics .............. 14,258 11,868 377 387 296 683 406 241 

Podiatric dermatology ......... 6.086 4,802 360 265 18 433 128 ?’ 

Roentgenology ............. 4,544 3,579 179 53 163 372 141 57 

Foot orthopedics ............ 121,973 103,409 2,726 2.802 2,171 6,654 3,018 1,191 

Other .................... 4,553 3.315 270 379 275 205 75 35 

Number of weekly patient visits 

United States ............ 459,285 379.710 14,994 12,641 1 8,591 28,838 9,972 4,538 

reported: 

Fewer than 50 visits . . . . . . . . . . 59,948 51,604 1,235 918 419 3,690 1,797 285 

5089 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199,940 169,313 5,086 3,641 2,168 13,064 4,930 1,738 

loo-149 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129,214 105,606 4,943 3,698 2,199 8,823 2,576 1,369 

150 visits or more . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,183 53,188 3.730 4,384 3,805 3,260 669 1,147 

Number of hours per week spent in’ ’ 

patient care: 

1-34 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ . . 90,985 75,995 2,460 2,016 1,401 6,407 1,862 843 

35-40 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173,954 143,803 5,661 4,875 3,872 10,167 3,552 2,024 

41-49 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,531 89,484 2,991 2,657 1,455 6,457 2,393 1,095 

50 hours or more . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,815 70,428 3,882 3,093 1,864 5,807 2,165 575 

Number of assistants employed: 

None ..................... 123,229 96,879 5,405 4,077 2,283 9,585 3,654 1,345 

1 assistant ................. 145,465 121,082 4,6@i 2,843 1,986 10,050 3,485 1,417 

2 assistants ................ 116,353 93,637 2,714 3,674 1,119 6,268 1,940 1,000 

3 assistants or more .......... 80,239 68,112 2,274 2,047 3,203 2,935 893 775 

21 

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Table 10. Number and percent distribution of total patients treated weekly by clinical setting of treatment, according to selected clinical 

characteristics of the treating podiatrist: United States, 1970-Con.. 

Total Clinical setting 

Selected clinical characteristics of patients Clinic the treating podiatrist treated Private Hospital Hospital (not associated Nursing Patient’s Other 

weekly office (inpatient) (outpatient) with hospital) home home setting 

Percent distribution 

United States . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 82.7 3.3 2.8 1.9 6.3 2.2 1.o 

Primary clinical activity: 

General practice . . . . . 100.0 83.5 3.i 2.5 1.2 6.4 2.3 1.o 

Surgery . . . . . . . . . 100.0 78.8 5.9 3.6 7.0 2.8 1 .o 1.o 

Podogeriatrics . . . . . . . . 100.0 61.0 2.5 6.6 1.6 22.6 3.0 2.8 

Podopediatrics . . . . . . . . 100.0 93.1 0.7 2.2 1.2 1.9 0.9 

qodiatric dermatology . . . 100.0 90.2 3.3 3.3 3.3 

Roentgenology . . . . . . . 100.0 83.3 16.7 

Foot orthopedics . . . 100.0 79.5 2.3 6.3 5.3 4.2 1.4 1 .o 

Other . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 46.0 1.7 .9.3 35.7 6.3 1 .I 

Secondary clinical activity: 

No secondary activity 100.0 85.1 2.5 1.7 1.2 5.9 2.4 1.3 

General practice . . . . 100.0 76.5 4.6 4.2 6.1 6.3 1.3 1 .o 

Surgery . . . . . . . . 100.0 83.3 3.5 3.4 1.7 5.6 1.6 0.8 ” 

Podogeriatrics . . . . 100.0 75.6 5.4 2.5 1.1 11.6 3.1 0.8 

Podopediatrics . . . . . 100.0 83.2 2.7 2.7 2.1 4.8 2.8 1.7, 

Podiatric dermatology 100.0 78.9 5.9 4.4 0.3 7.1 2.1 1.3 

Roentgenology . . . 100.0 78.8 3.9 1 .2 3.6 8.2 3.1 1.3 

Foot orthopedics . . 100.0 84.8 2.2 2.3 1.8 5.5 2.5 1 .o 

Other _ . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 72.8 5.9 8.3 6.0 4.5 1.6 0.8 

Number of weekly patient visits 

reported: 

Fewer than 50 visits . . . . . . . . . 100.0 86.1 2.1 1.5 0.7 6.2 3.0 0.5 

50-99 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 84.7 2.5 1.8 1 .I 6.5 2.5 0.9 

loo-149 visits . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 81.7 3.8 2.9 1.7 6.8 2.0 1.1 

150 visits or more . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 75.8 5.3 6.3 5.4 4.7 1.0 1.6 

. Number of hours per week spent in 

patient care: 

1-34 hours . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 83.5 2.7 2.2 1.5 7.0 2.1 0.9 

35-40 hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 82.7 3.3 2.8 2.2 5.8 2.0 1.2 

4149 hours . . . . . . . . . . 100.0 84.0 2.8 2.5 1 A 6.1 2.3 1 .o 

50 hours or more . . . , . . . . . 100.0 80.2 4.4 3.5 2.1 6.6 2.5 0.7 

Number of assistants emploved: 

None .................... 100.0 78.6 4.4 3.3 1.9 7.8 3.0 1.1 

1 assistant ................. 100.0 83.2 3.2 2.0 1.4 6.9 2.4 1 .o 

2 assistants ................ 100.0 84.9 2.5 3.3 1 .o 5.7 1.8 0.9 

3 assistants or more .......... 100.0 84.9 2.8 2.6 4.0 L 3.7 1 .I i.0 

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APPENDIX I 

TECHNICAL PROCEDURES 

Background: 1970 Survey of Podiatrists 

Most of the statistical information used in this 

report is the product of a survey of podiatrists 

conducted January through March 1970 by the 

National Center for Health Statistics with the 

cooperation of the American Podiatry Association. 

The survey was conducted by means of a 

self-administered questionnaire that was intended for mailing to all licensed podiatrists in 

the United States. The questionnaire was designed to gather information from all licensed 

podiatrists, active or inactive, about geographic 

location, year of birth, States of licensure, 

number of years active in podiatry, and whether 

currently active or inactive in podiatry. For all 

licensed podiatrists who were active in podiatry, 

the questionnaire sought additional information 

about their principal form of employment, the 

number of weeks they worked in podiatric 

activities during calendar year 1969, and the 

number of hours per week they usually devoted 

to all their professional podiatric activities. And, 

for survey respondents who indicated that they 

spent any time whatever in patient care, there 

were questions designed to gather information 

about the services they rendered, their use of 

personnel to assist them in their practice, their 

primary and secondary activities, the number of 

patient visits they experienced in the week 

preceding their response to the survey, and the 

number of patients they saw during that week 

by age and sex of the patient and by the setting 

in which the patient was treated. 

A pretest was conducted during the months 

of October and November 1969. The 100 

subjects for the pretest were randomly chosen 

from an alphabetical list of licensed podiatrists 

supplied by the American Podiatry Association. 

Two mailouts of the proposed survey questionnaire were made. One telephone followup completed the pretest effort, producing a total 

response rate of about 91 percent. An analysis 

of pretest responses resulted in minor changes in 

the wording of the questionnaire and in the 

reordering of certain parts within one of the 

questions in the interest of greater clarity. The 

final, revised form of the questionnaire appears 

as appendix III. 

Data Collection and Processing 

For the main survey effort, the total number 

of podiatrists was defined as a.ll persons holding 

a license in podiatry in the United States. The 

<initial mailing list was compiled by merging the 

licensing lists of the 50 States and the District of 

Columbia. Lists were supplied by the American 

Podiatry Association. The total number of podiatrists generated from the lists was 9,235. From 

this number, duplicates (podiatrists licensed in 

more than one State) and podiatrists with 

foreign addresses were eliminated, and the grad23 
uates of the five accredited colleges of podiatry 

for the 1968-1969 academic year were added. 

This process of merging the 51 lists, eliminating 

duplicates and podiatrists outside the United 

States, and adding graduates resulted in a mailing list of 8,290 potential respondents who were 

then canvassed by mail. 

The initial mailing of the survey questionnaire 

was made in January 1970. Three subsequent 

mailings to follow up on nonrespondents were 

made in January and February 1970, the final 

mailing being by certified mail. The last effort at 

data collection, a telephone followup, was conducted during March 1970. The response rate, 

after all collection efforts had been made and 

after excluding deceased and those out of scope 

(see table I), amounted to about 91 percent. 

After eliminating the deceased, the duplicates 

which had not been discovered before mailing, 

and a few potential subjects who were out of 

scope because they were no longer licensed, had 

left the United States, or had been mistakenly 

assumed to be podiatrists, a total of 8,016 

podiatrists remained within the scope of the 

survey. The further elimination of refusals, 

postmaster returns, and other nonresponses reduced the usable .universe to 7,274 “good” 

responses (table I). In order to approximate the 

total universe of podiatrists as it would have 

appeared had there been no refusals,. postmaster 

returns, or other nonresponses, a weighting or 

“inflation” factor was established for each State 

from the ratio of total podiatrists in that State 

(excluding deceased and those out of scope of 

the survey) to the number of usable (good) 

Table I. Number and percent distribution of survey population 

by type of respondent or nonrespondent: United States, 1970 

I I 

Type of respondent or 

nonrespondent Number distribution 

All podiatrists surveyed, 

excluding deceased and 

those out of scope . . . . . 100.0 

Good response . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90.7 

Refusal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 

Postmaster return . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 

Nonresponse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 

responses obtained (table II). Within each State, 

each good response received the same weight. 

When all the weighted records were cumulated, 

they yielded (after rounding) a weighted national figure of 8,017 for total active and 

inactive podiatrists, a figure of 7,113 for active 

podiatrists, and a figure .of 7,078 for active 

podiatrists who indicated that they devoted 

some part of their weekly effort-however 

small-to the direct diagnosis and treatment of 

podiatric patients. 

For the purposes of the present report we 

selected as’our statistical base the number of 

patients treated “last week” by the 7,078 

podiatrists who were active in patient care. Our 

total was based on a cumulation of responses to 

item 20 of the survey questionnaire; (A facsimile 

of the survey questionnaire appears as appendix 

III.) To arrive at the total number of patients 

treated weekly, we took the “number of patients” from each record, multiplied this figure 

by the inflation factor established for the 

appropriate State, then cumulated the weighted 

values from all applicable records to yield an 

estimate of 459,285 patients treated in the 

course of 1 week by American podiatrists at the 

time of the 19 70 survey. 

To compensate for partial nonresponse within 

the questionnaire, i.e., leaving items unanswered, 

another type of adjustment was applied to the 

data as received. In such cases, omitted items -

were randomly assigned the response obtained 

from respondents with similar characteristics 

and the total figure for the item was adjusted to 

include this “imputation.” As may be learned 

from table III, the need for this kind of 

adjustment was minimal; the item nonresponse 

rate was less than 2 percent for all items except 

the final four on the questionnaire, which 

requested information on number of patient 

visits and on the ,number and characteristics of 

patients seen. (See survey questionnaire items 

19, 20, 20a, and 20b, in appendix III.) The 

comparatively high .nonresponse rate for these 

items (from 4 to 7 percent) may be partly 

explained by the fact that the questions appear 

last in the questionnaire and an appreciable 

amount of respondent fatigue may have set in. 

Probably a better reason for the nonresponse, 

however, was the need to consult records and to 

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Table I I. Distribution of active formally qualified podiatrists by area before and’after application of adjustment ratios: United States, 

1970 

L 

. Responding Inflation Weighted 

Area active factor stimate of 

podiatrists )odiatrists 

United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :. . . . . . . . 7,274 1.10 

Alabama ........................................................ 22 1.18 

Alaska ......................................................... 5 1 .oo 

Arizona ......................................................... 40 1.15 

Arkansas ....................................... . ................ 19 I .2i 

California ....................................................... 783 1.09 

Colorado.. ...................................................... 71 1.10 

Connecticut ...................................................... 186 1.10 

Delaware.. ...................................................... 22 1 .oo 

District of Columbia ................................................ 55 1.22 

Florida ......................................................... 224 1.09 

Georgia ......................................................... 56 1.13 

Hawaii ......................................................... 6 1 .oo 

Idaho .......................................................... 16 1.06 

Illinois ......................................................... 649 1.14 

Indiana ......................................................... 140 1.12 

Iowa ........................................................... 95 1.11 

Kansas ......................................................... 47 1.06 

Kentucky ....................................................... 57 1.05 

Louisiana ........................................................ 39 1.08 

Maine.. ................................... . .................... 22 1.09 

Maryland ........................................................ 97 1.06 

Massachusetts...............; ..................................... 439 1.14 

Michigan ........................................................ 271 1.06 

Minnesota ............................ I .......................... 76 1.08 

Mississippi ........................................................ 8 1.13 

Missouri ........................................................ 87 1.10 

Montana ........................................................ 14 1 .oo 

Nebraska.. ...................................................... 42 1.07 

Nevada ....... . ................................................. 15 1.20 

NewHampshire ................................................... 24 1.08 

NewJersey ...................................................... 380 1.10 

NewMexico ...................................................... 18 Ii17 

NewYork ........................................................ 1,252 1.10 

NorthCarolina.. .... . ............................................. 51 1.08 

NorthDakota.................................................’.... 6 1 .oo 

Ohio ........................................................... 514 1.10 

Oklahoma ....................................................... 48 1.08 

Oregon ......................................................... 35 1.09 

Pennsylvania ..................................................... 693 1.10 

Rhodelsland ..................................................... 57 i.05 

South Carolina .................................................... 14 1.14 

SouthDakota ..................................................... 15 1.07 

Tennessee ....................................................... 33 1.15 

Texas .......................................................... 186 1.10 

Utah.. ......................................................... 26 1 .oo 

Vermont ........................................................ 6 1.33 

Virginia .......................................................... 60 1.05 

Washington ...................................................... 65 1.06 

WestVirginia ..................................................... 43 1.12 

Wisconsin ....................................................... 139 1.09 

Wyoming ........................................................ 6 1.33 

8,016 

26 

5 

46 

23 

853 

78 

205 

22 . 67 

244 

63 

6 

17 

740 

157 

105 

50 

60 

42 

24 

103 

500 

287 

82 

9 

96 

14 

45 

18 

26 

418 

21 

1,377 

55 

6 

565 

52 ’ 

38 

762 

60 

16 

16 

38 

205 

26 

8 

63 

69 

48 

152 

8 

. 1 

25 

8 
classify patients seen by age and sex as well as 

by the seven possible settings in which the 

treatment could have occurred. , 

Rounding 

Numbers that appear in the present report 

were independently rounded and may not add 

to totals. Percents were also independently 

rounded and may not always add to 100 

percent. Percents and rates were calculated on 

the basis of original, unrounded figures and will 

not necessarily agree with rates and percents 

that might be calculated from rounded data 

Table HI. item nonresponse rate: 1970 Survey of podiatrists 

item Nonresponse Item Nonresponse 

number rate number rate 

2 ........ 0.5 13 ......... 

3 ........ 1.9 14 ........ 

4 ........ 0.2 15 ........ 

5 ........ 0.3 16 ........ 

6A ....... 0.5 17A ...... 

6B ....... 0.9 17B...., .. 

7 ........ 0.1 18 ........ 

8 ........ - 1.4 19 ........ 

9 ........ 1.4 20 ........ 

10 ........ 20A ...... 

11 ........ 

12 ........ L 

0.3 

‘. 1.7 

20B ....... 

1 

0.6 

1.7 

1 .o 

1.7 

0;5 

0.9 

3.9 

3.9 

6.8 

512 

. 

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APPENDIX 111 

DEFINITION OF CERTAUU TERMS USED IN THIS REPORT 

Age.-Refers to the respondent’s age in 1970. West 

In all cases,. age is calculated as the difference Mountain . . . . . . . . . Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, between 1970 and the respondent’s year of Nevada

birth. Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . Washington, Oregon, Alaska, CaliGeographic area.-For the purpose of report- fornia, Hawaii 

ing the data yielded by the 1970 Podiatry 

Survey, the United States (the 50 States and the Standard Federal District of Columbia) is divided * into census Administrative Region regions and divisions, and into 10 Standard (with’HEW administrative States included 

Federal Administrative Regions as follows: center) 

Censusregion 

and division States in&b&.$ Region I (Boston) . . . . . . Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode IsNortheast bin& Vermont 

New England . . . . . . . Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Region II (NYC) . . . . . . . New York, New Jersey 

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Region IIIjPhiladelphia) . . District of Columbia, Delaware, 

Connecticut Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

Middle Atlantic . . . .? New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- West Virginia 

vania Region IV (Atlanta) . . . . Alabama, Florida, Georgia, KenNorth Central tucky, Mississippi, North CaroEast North Central . . . Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lina, South Carolina, Tennessee 

Wisconsin RegionV (Chicago) . . . . . Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, MichWest NorthCentral . . . Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North igan, Ohio, wisconsin 

Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Region VI (DallasKansas Fort Worth) . . . . . . . . Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, 

south Oklahoma, Texas 

SouthAtlantic . . . . . . Delaware, Maryland, District of Region VII (Kansas City) . Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska 

Columbia, Virginia, West Virginiq Region VIII (Denver) . . . - Colorado, Montana, North DaNorth Carolina, South Carolina, kota, Sbuth Dakota, Utah, WyoGeorgia, Florida -g 

East South Central . . . Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Region IX (San Francisco). Arizona, California, Hawaii, NeMississippi . vada 

West South Central . . . Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, RegionX (Seattle) . . . . . Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, WashmgTexas ton 

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APPENDIX III 

SlJiWEY QUESTlONiilAlRE 

Form Approved 

Budget Bureau No. 68-SG9063 

Approval Expires March 31. 1970 

CONFIDENTIAL: AH information which permits 

the identification of the individual will be held 

strictly confidential, will be used solely by 

persons engaged in, and only for the purposes of 

the survey and will not be disclosed or released 

to other persons or for any other purpose. 

I SURVEY OF PODIATRISTS 

1. Is your name correct, and is the address above your PRIMARY PLACE OF PRACTICE? 

, q Yes 20 NO 

t 

If no, please enter the correct information below: 

Name: 

First Middle L.52 

Primary place of practice: Number Sfreer 

City Sfafe Zip Code 

2. In what year were you born? Year 

3. Where were you born? 

4. Are you (I citizen of the United States. 3 (Please check appropriate 6oGJ 

t 0 Yes, Native born s z IJ Yes, Naturalized 

s I-JNO 

5. Sax: 1 0 Male 

2 0 Female 

6. A. From which college of podiatry did you graduate? 

Name of college 

B. When did you graduate? fear graduated 

7. What degrees have you earned OTHER THAN your degree in podiatry. 3 (Check each box that cpp/iesJ 

0 Doctorate fPh.D.. Ed.D., etc.) r-~ Bachelor’s 0 Other (@xi/y : J 

0 Master’s 0 Associate q None 

_... 

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8. In which States do you currently hold a liccnso tobroctice podiatry? 

9. How many years have you boon octivo in podlotry? (Include putient care, teaching, research, cmd administration. 

Exclude years spent in non-podiatric activities or retirement.) 

Number 01 years 

10. Are you CURRENTLY ACTIVE In podiatry? (Include patient care, teaching, research, and oo’ministrotion) 

No, Not active in podiatry but not retired 

No, Retired 

STOPI If you arm not currmtly octivo in podiatry, 

xndmr of quastionnoire doss not apply. PIsore 

roturn quertionnoir* in the snv*lops provided. 

11. Which of the following categories host describes your PRINCiPAL form of employment? (Check one)

-

* 1 0 Self-employed - Solo pracrice 

P 0 Self-employed - Partnership practice 

s 0 Self-employed - Group practice 

4 0 Employed by - Milirery 

I 0 Employed by - Federal government (non-milifary) 

I 0 Employed by - Srate,or local government 

t 0 Employed by - Non-government organization 0~ institution 

B q Employed by - Other podiatrist 

D 0 Other (Specijy: ) 

12. How mony WEEKS were you active in podioiry during cblendor year 1969? 

(Include patient core, teaching, research, und administration. Do not count vacations o.s weeks worked.) 

Weeks per year 

13. APPROXIMATELY how many hours per wook do you usually spend in l och of the following podiatric activities? 

hrs. Patient care llnclude o//ice mrk connected with the care O/ ~XU patients) 

hrs. Teaching in a college of podiatry 

hre. Podiatry research 

hrs. Administration (Podiatry associations, college administration, efc.) 

hrs. Other podiatric activity 

Total hours per week 

14. Do you spend any hours per weok in the cotogory “Patient care” in question 130. obove? 

‘0 Yes, I spend some hours P 0 No, I spend “0 hours 

in patient care. in patient care. 

, STOPI If no hours or* spent in potiont core, 

zndsr of qusstionnoiro doss not apply. Plooss :eturn qusstionnairs in the envelops providad. 
15. ?&en providin? pctient care, which of the services below are rendered to your patients by you or under your direction? 

(Check a11 that apply! 

0 Palliative services 

n Hospital surgery 

0 Office surgery 

0 Prescription of drugs 

0 Physical therapy treatment 

q Orthopedic services 

0 Whirlpool baths 

0 Fitting of special shoes 

0 X-ray services 

0 Ultrasonic treatment 

0 Diathermy 

q Low-voltage treatment 

0 Ultra-violet lamp treatment 

0 Other (Specify: 

16. In your principal form of employment, do you employ office assistants other than podiatrists to assist you? (Include 

receptionists, secretaries, technical assistants, nurses, etc.) 

‘0 Yes z q NO 

t 

Please indicate the NUMBER of full-time and part-time office ussistonts employed by you. 

a. Number of FULL-TIME assistants -

(3.5 hours or more per week) 

b. Number of PART-TIME assistants ­

iLess than 35 hours per week) 

17. During your hours spent in patient care, what do you consider to be your PRIMARY, and your SECONDARY activity? 

A. PRIMARY activity: (Check one) B. SECONDARY activity: (Check one) 

t 0 General pracrice I 0 General practice 

2 0 Surgery 2 0 Surgery 

3 0 Podogeriatrics 3 0 Podogeriatrics 

4 0 Podopediatrics 4 u Podopediatrics 

I 0 Podiatric dermatology 5 17 Podiatric dermatology 

6 0 Roenrgenology 6 0 Roentgenology 

7 0 Foot orthopedics 7 0 Foot orthopedics 

B 0 Other CSpeci/y: B 0 Ocher (Specily: 

o 0 None 

18. In yovr PODIATRY PRACTICE, h ow many hours did you spend in patient care LAST week? 

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19. APPROXIMATELY how many PATIENT VISITS did y ou have LAST week? (Include office visits and visits in -

other settings.) 

Appmximafe number of visits last week 

20. APPROXIMATELY how many different PATiENTS d ORSthis rep&at? (Patients with multiple visits should 6e 

counted only once.) 

Approximate number of pafients last week 

A. Of these PATIENTS, what is the APPROXIMATE NUMBER in the following age and sex categories? 

MALE PATIENTS FEMALE PATIENTS 

LAST WEEK: LAST WEEK: 

Number 16 years old or under: 

Number from 17 to 64 years old: 

Number 65 years old or over: 

B. Of these PATIENTS, what is the APPROXIMATE NUMBER treated in the following settings? 

Number in private office 

. Number in other setting f.Spwi/y: 

COMMENTS - General comments are invited as well as comments on specific items: 

I PLEASE RETUW QGESTiO~?‘AIRE IN THE STPMPED ENVELOPE PROVIDED. I ----“.-_-.._---.._- __-._.-.- .-.~ -_. .---_.-_-- , 

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