Rural practice preferences among medical students in Ghana: a discrete choice experiment
Margaret E Kruk, Jennifer C Johnson, Mawuli Gyakobo, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Kwesi Asabir, S Rani Kotha, Janet Kwansah, Emmanuel Nakua, Rachel C Snow & Mawuli Dzodzomenyo
Volume 88, Number 5, May 2010, 333-341
Table 3. Policy simulations modelling preferences for rural postings with different job attributes
| New job attribute | Preferred rural posting | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Currenta | ||||
| % | SD | % | SD | ||
| 30% salary increase | 58.76 | 0.20 | 41.24 | 0.20 | |
| 50% salary increase | 63.96 | 0.31 | 36.04 | 0.31 | |
| 100% salary increase | 73.75 | 0.49 | 26.25 | 0.49 | |
| Allowance for children’s education | 66.09 | 0.37 | 33.91 | 0.37 | |
| Improved infrastructure | 75.38 | 0.62 | 24.62 | 0.62 | |
| Supportive management | 72.17 | 0.59 | 27.83 | 0.59 | |
| Study leave after 2 years | 70.22 | 1.53 | 29.78 | 1.53 | |
| No housing | 22.00 | 1.39 | 78.00 | 1.39 | |
| Superior housing | 63.99 | 1.08 | 36.01 | 1.08 | |
| Utility car | 67.30 | 1.23 | 32.70 | 1.23 | |
| Multiple incentivesb | 89.50 | 1.06 | 10.50 | 1.06 | |
SD, standard deviation.
a Current rural posting: base salary; no allowance for children’s education; basic infrastructure, equipment and supplies; unsupportive management; study leave after 5 years; basic housing; and no utility car.
b Improved infrastructure, superior housing, study leave after 2 years.