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Table 4 Willingness to pay for job attributes among nursing students and practicing nurses in Laos, 2011

From: Differences in preferences for rural job postings between nursing students and practicing nurses: evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Attribute

Nursing students

Practicing nurses

 

% base salarya

% base salary

duration of service until promoted to permanent staff (reference: two years)

  one year

30.174

18.078

 

(22.730, 37.619)

(11.302, 24.854)

  directly upon hiring

38.503

36.958

 

(27.515, 49.492)

(26.995, 46.921)

duration of service until qualified for further study and scholarship (reference: three years)

  two years

11.899

17.140

 

(5.033, 18.764)

(10.273, 24.008)

  one year

23.698

15.275

 

(15.181, 32.215)

(8.081, 22.468)

housing (reference: none)

  housing allowance

29.224

17.320

 

(20.328, 38.121)

(9.792, 24.847)

  housing provided

36.841

21.097

 

(27.592, 46.091)

(13.554, 28.641)

transportation (reference: none)

  provided for work purposes only

28.071

23.451

 

(20.366, 35.776)

(16.087, 30.814)

  provided for work and personal use

39.992

23.071

 

(30.803, 49.182)

(15.490, 30.652)

performance-based financial award

20.767

21.113

 

(13.569, 27.966)

(13.984, 28.243)

number of respondents

256

249

number of observations

6,112

5,942

  1. aBase salary for nurses in Laos at the time of survey administration: 630,000 LAK per month (1 USD = 8,025 LAK). Numbers in parentheses are 95% confidence intervals.