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Table 1 Posting attributes and levels used in discrete choice experiment

From: Job preferences of medical and nursing students seeking employment in rural China: a discrete choice experiment

Attributes

Levels

Education opportunity

Once every 5 years

 

Once every 5 years

 

Once a year

Transportation

Inconvenient

 

Convenient

Salarya

RMB¥3000/month

 

RMB¥5000/month

 

RMB¥7000/month

 

RMB¥9000/month

Job location

Villages and towns

 

City

Workload

50 h per week

 

40 h per week

 

60 h per week

Essential equipment

Inadequate

 

Adequate

Patient–doctor relationships

No (quarrel, physical conflict and lawsuit)

 

Quarrel

 

Physical conflict

 

Lawsuit

Bianzhi

No Bianzhi

 

Have Bianzhi

  1. aFor analysis, salary was treated as a continuous variable. All other attributes were dummy coded. A base level was defined to reflect the current labor market conditions, whereas other levels were modifications from that base level