A national analysis of the pharmacy workforce in Indonesia

Table 1 Data sources

Data sources	Key variables	Data retrieval
National Pharmacy Committee database*	Date of birth (converted to age), gender, year of graduation, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), license validity	28 May 2019
Ministry of Education website [26]	University, pharmacy programmes establishment date, average pharmacy students number in bachelor programmes (cohort size) in a year	20 April 2020
Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology report [27, 28]	Number of general and vocational senior secondary school pupils per province	15 December 2020
Ministry of Health Website** [29]	Number of pharmacy workforce (pharmacists and pharmacy technicians) in 2019	21 April 2020, data for 31 December 2019
Indonesian Pharmacists Association (IAI) database***	Practice sector, date of birth (converted to age), gender	23 October 2021

^*Total pharmacists: 77 191; two cases on the ‘year of graduation’ variable were missing
^**The pharmacy workforce number included in this dataset consisted of the sum of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who practise in the healthcare facilities (public and some private facilities). There were no trend data available for the number of pharmacists (only) in each province
^***Total pharmacists: 78 914. There were (1) 54 331 data on the sector of practice; (2) 78 514 data on age; and (3) 78 914 data on gender

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