Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the job preferences of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural Australia

Table 3 Results from conditional logit regression

Attributes	Coefficient (ß)	Std error	P value	95 % confidence interval
Travel arrangements
(nights away per month)
Four or more^a	−1.518	0.317	0.000*	−1.835	−1.201
Two or three	0.714	0.073	0.000*	0.571	0.857
One or less	0.804	0.080	0.000*	0.647	0.961
Flexibility in work hours
Little^a	−0.521	0.028	0.000*	−0.549	−0.493
Some	0.028	0.064	0.660	−0.098	0.155
Very	0.493	0.070	0.000*	0.355	0.630
Professional support (available)
Rarely^a	−1.005	0.366	0.006*	−1.371	−0.639
Sometimes	0.357	0.082	0.000*	0.197	0.517
Readily	0.648	0.084	0.000*	0.484	0.813
Access to PD
Minimal^a	−1.291	0.140	0.000*	−1.431	−1.151
Adequate	0.649	0.078	0.000*	0.495	0.802
Ideal	0.643	0.086	0.000*	0.473	0.812
Remuneration
(rural loading)
5 %^a	−0.709	0.336	0.035*	−1.045	−0.373
10 %	0.279	0.066	0.000*	0.150	0.408
15 %	0.431	0.063	0.000*	0.306	0.555
Autonomy of practice
Limited^a	−1.386	0.224	0.000*	−1.610	−1.162
Some	0.555	0.076	0.000*	0.407	0.703
High	0.831	0.080	0.000*	0.673	0.989
Pseudo R²	0.069
Log likelihood	−1650.9158
Number of respondents	165
Number of observations	4950

PD: professional development; *: significant at 5 %
^aUsing effects coding, L-1 levels are calculated using the regression model; the missing level is obtained from the negative of the sum of all other coefficients

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