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Table 3 Proportion of nurses receiving sources of income and mean and median values of income received

From: A cross-sectional study of the income sources of primary care health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Source of income

Overall proportion of workers who received source of income

Median income per month among those receiving income in USD (IQR)

Mean income per month among those receiving income in USD (standard error)

Payments from government

 Salary from government (n = 407)

31.2%

52.76 (23–75)

58.06 (60.45)

 Occupational risk allowance from government (n = 407)

53.8%

12.46 (11–16)

36.57 (73.38)

Payments from other sources

 Performance pay (n = 407)

24.1%

16.25 (9–46)

35.79 (48.81)

 User fees (n = 406)

74.6%

19.50 (11–38)

71.02 (157.95)

 Gifts/informal payments from patients (n = 406)

16.8%

4.60 (2–11)

8.73 (10.43)

 Per diems (n = 406)

51.7%

4.06 (2–8)

8.56 (26.35)

 Income from private clinical practice (n = 407)

7.1%

21.67 (11–54)a

34.02 (34.05)a

 Income from supplemental (non-clinical) activities (n = 400)

46.8%

65.01 (33–114)a

119.27 (154.62)a

Total income (n = 300a)

N/A

85.05 (36–176)a

165.26 (227.55)a

  1. N.B. For the occupational risk allowance, one outlier income was dropped from the analysis; no outliers were detected for any other income amount
  2. aGreater than 10% of data missing as respondents had missing values for some of the amounts of income