Employment preferences of public sector nurses in Malawi: results from a discrete choice experiment.
Case study
The DCE was designed to assess the nurses’ preference over an hypothetical job description. Each job description was described by a bundle of job attributes, like net monthly pay, provision of government housing, availability of material resources (equipment, drugs and other consumables), typical workload, opportunities to upgrade professional qualifications, place of work.
The results of the discrete choice experiment found that there were relatively few nurses whose preferences appeared to be dominated by a single attribute, and all six attributes had a statistically significant influence on the nurses’ preferences.