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Table 1 Attributes and attributes levels for DCE choice questions

From: Job preferences of undergraduate pharmacy students in China: a discrete choice experiment

Attributes

Definition

Attributes levels

Monthly income

Monthly income including salary, bonus and welfare benefits

3000 yuan

6000 yuan

9000 yuan

Work location

Location refers to working in different regions

Township or village

County

City

Work unit

Work unit refers to the nature of your workplace. Public institutions such as hospitals, food and drug administration, etc.; foreign-funded enterprises include pure foreign-capital and sino-foreign joint ventures; State-owned enterprises include state-owned enterprises, central enterprises and so on; Private enterprises such as private medical enterprises

Public institutions

Foreign-funded enterprises

State-owned enterprises

Private enterprises

Management style

Management style refers to the understanding, support and adoption of the work and Suggestions of the employees by the company or leadership, as well as the degree of freedom of the employees in the work

Semi-open management

Open management

Training opportunity

Training opportunity refers to during the employment period to accept the company to provide a variety of skills training opportunity

Insufficient

Average

Sufficient

Years to promotion

Years to promotion refers to the number of years required for promotion

5 years

2 years

  1. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) data, the average annual exchange rate between US$ and CNY in 2017 was 1$ = 6.759 yuan