The AUA Annual Census: Collecting Meaningful Data to Bridge Knowledge Gaps in Urology

The AUA Annual Census

First launched in May 2014, the AUA Census provides clinicians, policymakers, payers and patients with important information about urologic providers' geographic distribution, demographic characteristics, education and training and patterns of urology practice. It also identifies cross-sectional and longitudinal variations across the specialty nationwide.

Census Question Organization

The census modules consist of core and supplemental questions.

Core questions target the entire urology specialty assessing cross-sectional and longitudinal patterns. Core questions include practicing status, clinical practice setting, primary and secondary subspecialties, patient encounters, employment status and type of employers.

Supplemental questions focus on emerging issues and are only asked in a single year and/or distributed to a subset of participants, either by randomized or targeted selection. Supplementary questions may be a continuation of core questions or specific to a targeted group of participants, such as urologists who practice prostate cancer care in a particular state or urologists who provide a specific type of patient care (see example below).

AUA Annual Census

AUA Census Timeline

The Census launches each Spring at the AUA Annual Meeting and remains available, online, through September. Participants who complete the Census are eligible to be entered into a raffle to receive prizes such as gift cards. The results are analyzed beginning in October and included in the annual publication, The State of the Urology Workforce and Practice in the United States, that is published before the next AUA Annual Meeting. 

How Can Census Data Be Used

Results from the Census data are released annually to inform the urology community, patients, policymakers and healthcare system and the general public about urology workforce and practice. De-identified, census-based public use micro-datasets are available to clinicians, health services and policy researchers, residents, medical students, and industry groups for research and analysis. Send an email to dataservices@AUAnet.org to get pricing information. 

Incentives for Participating in Census

The Census data reports are available online free of charge to all members of the urology community. Notably, the AUA utilizes census data to advocate on behalf of the specialty. Participants who complete the Census are eligible to be entered into a raffle to receive prizes such as gift cards. Click here to see the Census giveaway rules.

Privacy Policy

Identifiable information collected from this AUA Membership ID-based census will be stored in a secured area and will not be reported or shared with any third party.  It may be used by the AUA to better segment and target its communications to you. De-identified, aggregated data may be shared to advance urologic research.

Contact

Contact dataservices@AUAnet.org for information about Census results or datasets.