Rural job preferences of graduate class medical students in Ethiopia—a discrete choice experiment (DCE)

BMC Medical Education

Table 5 Latent class model for a rural job preference

Attribute	Levels	Class 1		Class 2		Class 3
Attribute	Levels	Coef	Std.Err	Coef	Std.Err	Coef	Std.Err
Salary (1 ETB = 0.0244 USD)		0.0003078^***	0.0000855	4.53e-06	0.0000429	0.0006824^***	0.0001103
Housing	House Basic	Ref
Housing	House superior	0.86^***	0.28	0.16	0.17	-0.26	0.30
Drug, equipment, and supplies	Inadequate
Drug, equipment, and supplies	Adequate	1.47^***	0.38	0.91^***	0.17	-0.09	0.30
Mandatory experience before a study leave	Two years
Mandatory experience before a study leave	One year	1.69^***	0.30	-0.08	0.19	-0.01	0.29
Supportive management	Unsupportive	Ref
Supportive management	Supportive	-0.22	0.40	0.71^***	0.14	0.83^***	0.26
Average workload	Heavy	Ref
Average workload	Normal	0.31	0.34	0.48^***	0.14	0.56^*	0.29
Class share		29.8%		41.7%		28.5%

Salary was linearly coded
^***P-value < 0.01
^**P-value < 0.05
^*P-value < 0.10 Coef., Coefficient; Std. Err, Standard error; Ref, Reference category

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