Table 1 DCE Attributes and Levels for Health Workers in South Omo, Ethiopia
Attributes | Levels | Description |
|---|---|---|
Salary | 1 | Your base salary at its current level |
2 | Your base salary at its current level + 40% remoteness bonus | |
3 | Your base salary at its current level + 60% remoteness bonus | |
4 | Your base salary at its current level + 80% remoteness bonus | |
Education upgrading opportunity (with full tuition and continuous payment of salary) | 1 | No education upgrading opportunity is offered |
2 | Education opportunity is offered after three years of service | |
3 | Education opportunity is offered after two years of service | |
4 | Education opportunity is offered after one year of service | |
Provision of housing | 1 | No housing is provided by the health facility |
2 | Basic housing (studio with shared kitchen and shared toilet) is provided by the health facility | |
3 | Advanced housing (two rooms with private kitchen and toilet) is provided by the facility | |
Location of the health facility | 1 | Health facility is two hours away from district center by car |
2 | Health facility is located at district center or towns of same level | |
3 | Health facility is located at zonal center (Jinka) | |
Timely payment of salary and benefits | 1 | Salary and other benefits delayed by more than two months. |
2 | Salary and other benefits delayed by a month | |
3 | Salary and other benefits paid on time | |
Workplace management and culture | 1 | Supervisors are not supportive and make work difficult. |
2 | Supervisors are supportive and make work easy | |
Availability of equipment and drugs at the health facility | 1 | Inadequate (basic equipment’s and medicine stock not available at least for two months) |
2 | Adequate (basic equipment’s and medicine stock available at least for two months) | |
Infrastructure (electricity, water, transportation, & internet) | 1 | Below average access to infrastructure (electricity, internet, water, and transportation) |
2 | Average or above average access to infrastructure (electricity, internet, water, and transportation) |