Job preferences of undergraduate nursing students in eastern China: a discrete choice experiment

Table 6 Results of mixed logit models and willingness to pay (WTP) by different subgroups

Attribute	Hometown: township or village			Hometown: city or county			Family income (RMB per year): < 50 000			Family income (RMB per year): > 50 000
Attribute	Mean	SD	WTP	Mean	SD	WTP	Mean	SD	WTP	Mean	SD	WTP
Monthly income	0.000489***	0.000236***	–	0.000469***	0.000261***	–	0.000460***	0.000231***	–	0.000554***	0.000271***	–
Location (ref: Township or village)
County	0.217***	0.021	443.4	0.495***	0.207	1 055.5	0.219***	0.032	474.9	0.459***	0.131	829.7
City	0.179**	0.272	366.6	0.748***	0.754***	1 594.2	0.226***	0.508***	490.1	0.610***	0.496**	1 101.4
Bianzhi (ref: No)
Yes	0.682***	0.554***	1 394.4	0.565***	0.758***	1 204.1	0.553***	0.575***	1 201.0	0.886***	0.733***	1 601.5
Career development and training opportunity (ref: Insufficient)
Some	0.062	0.042	126.0	0.198*	0.031	421.5	0.126*	0.043	274.0	0.034	0.086	61.5
Sufficient	0.679***	0.038	1 389.5	0.599***	0.060	1 277.0	0.631***	0.211	1 371.6	0.693***	0.024	1 251.5
Work environment (ref: Poor)
Normal	0.610***	0.024	1 248.9	0.557***	0.024	1 187.6	0.575***	0.015	1 250.1	0.686***	0.272	1 238.9
Excellent	0.725***	0.012	1 483.4	0.815***	0.065	1 737.0	0.770***	0.001	1 673.7	0.787***	0.271	1 421.2
Working strength (ref: Heavy)
Medium	1.069***	0.016	2 187.6	0.900***	0.124	1919.2	1.015***	0.012	2 205.5	1.043***	0.002	1884.3
Light	0.977***	0.346**	1999.0	1.105***	0.524**	2 357.1	1.042***	0.417**	2 265.4	1.010***	0.392	1825.5
Participants	309			136			297			148
Observations	7416			3264			7128			3552
Log likelihood	− 1 581.716			− 739.695			− 1 590.238			− 741.323

*P < 0.10; **P < 0.05; ***P < 0.01
Note: According to the OECD data, the average annual exchange rate between US$ and RMB in 2017 was US$ 1 = RMB 6.76

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