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Table 3 Results from conditional logit model

From: Incentives for non-physician health professionals to work in the rural and remote areas of Mozambique—a discrete choice experiment for eliciting job preferences

 

Variables

Model 1

  

Coefficients

SE

Salary

Salary

0.00007***

0.00000

Place of work: district capital

Work district

−0.33563***

0.04959

Place of work: provincial capital

Work province

−0.10953**

0.03397

Housing: basic government housing is provided

Housing provided

0.54174***

0.03116

Access to a loan for the purchase of a house or land: access to a loan for the purchase of a house or land is provided

Loan provided

0.31735***

0.02690

Formal education providing opportunities for promotion: opportunities for formal education are offered after 5 years of work

Education provided

0.51144***

0.03448

Skills development: on-going, short-term training courses and regular supportive supervision are provided

Training provided

0.27148***

0.02515

Availability of equipment and medicine: medical equipment, drugs and facility standards allow the provision of a basic package of health services

Medicine/equipment available

0.33995***

0.03020

Private practice: public sector heath workers are allowed to practice in the private sector on part-time basis (maximum 20 h per week)

Private practice allowed

0.08811***

0.02211

Constant

 

−0.01912

0.02746

Number of groups

 

488

 

Number of observations

 

15 458

 

Log likelihood

 

−4 597.9504

 

Wald chi-square

 

914.98

 

Prob > chi-square

 

0.0000

 
  1. ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01.