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Table 6 OLS model for total remuneration

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

Explanatory variables

Coefficient (SE)

Full model

Reduced model

Years in position

−0.01 (0.01)

 

Kasai Occidental (vs Equateur)

−0.37 (0.19)*

−0.27 (0.17)

Kasai Orientale (vs Equateur)

−0.11 (0.30)

−0.07 (0.28)

Maniema (vs Equateur)

−1.27 (0.26)***

−1.26 (0.18)***

(p < 0.001)

Province Orientale (vs Equateur)

−0.74 (0.24)***

−0.47 (0.22)**

(p = 0.032)

Population served

0.00 (0.00)

 

Total personnel

−0.01 (0.08)

 

Urban (vs rural)

0.22 (0.26)

 

Number of services

0.06 (0.04)

 

Distance of facility from village

0.01 (0.02)

 

Reference heath centre (vs heath centre)

−0.26 (0.21)

 

Age

0.01 (0.01)

 

Male (vs female)

0.26 (0.13)**

0.21 (0.12)*

Number of dependents

−0.01 (0.02)

 

Married (vs not married)

−0.03 (0.04)

 

University (vs school education)

0.11 (0.12)

 

Supported by ASSP programme

−0.13 (0.18)

 

Receives salary

0.73 (0.14)***

0.79 (0.12)***

(p < 0.001)

Receives occupational risk allowance

0.81 (0.15)***

0.70 (0.12)***

p < 0.001

Receives performance payment

0.59 (0.18)***

0.77 (0.15)***

p < 0.001

Receives user fees

0.65 (0.20)***

0.75 (0.17)***

p < 0.001

Receives informal payments

0.01 (0.17)

 

Receives income from private clinical work

−0.01 (0.25)

 

Receives supplemental income

1.03 (0.13)***

1.00 (0.10)***

p < 0.001

Receives per diems

0.20 (0.13)

0.20 (0.11)*

Constant

2.45 (0.42)***

2.91 (0.22)***

R 2

0.48***

0.44***

Number observations (n)

268

328

  1. *p ≤ 0.1; **p ≤ 0.05; ***p ≤ 0.01