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Table 3 Preferences for specialty attributes

From: What do Iranian physicians value most when choosing a specialty? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Attribute levelsa

β (SE)b

OR (95% CI)c

P-value

Monthly income of 300,000,000 IRR

0.73 (0.05)

2.08 (1.86–2.33)

< 0.0001

Monthly income of 500,000,000 IRR

1.49 (0.06)

4.44 (3.88–5.07)

< 0.0001

Monthly income of 700,000,000 IRR

1.73 (0.07)

5.65 (4.92–6.50)

< 0.0001

Opportunity for procedural activity (ordinary)

0.42 (0.05)

1.53 (1.37–1.70)

< 0.0001

Opportunity for procedural activity (great)

0.71 (0.06)

2.03 (1.80–2.29)

< 0.0001

Work-family compatibility (relative)

0.35 (0.04)

1.14 (1.01–1.23)

< 0.0001

Work-family compatibility (high)

0.41 (0.05)

1.42 (1.29–1.56)

< 0.0001

Opportunity for academic careers (ordinary)

− 0.01 (0.05)

1.01 (0.90–1.14)

0.780

Opportunity for academic careers (great)

0.71 (0.06)

2.05 (1.81–2.32)

< 0.0001

Job prestige (excellent)

0.75 (0.03)

2.13 (1.97–2.30)

< 0.0001

Job burnout (medium)

0.78 (0.06)

2.19 (1.92–2.50)

< 0.0001

Job burnout (low)

0.94 (0.06)

2.56 (2.25–2.90)

< 0.0001

Job burnout (very low)

1.21 (0.06)

3.38 (2.95–3.87)

< 0.0001

Emergency or on-call schedule (sometimes)

0.35 (0.06)

1.42 (1.26–1.60)

< 0.0001

Emergency or on-call schedule (seldom)

0.45 (0.05)

1.57 (1.40–1.75)

< 0.0001

Scope of practice (broad)

0.32 (0.03)

1.37 (1.28–1.48)

< 0.0001

Constant

0.13 (0.03)

–

< 0.0001

  1. Number of observations = 12,276; LR chi2(15) = 2417.68; Prob > chi2 = 0.0000; Pseudo R2 = 0.2841
  2. aBaseline levels: monthly income (200,000,000 IRR), opportunity for procedural activity (undesirable), work-family compatibility (low), opportunity for academic careers (undesirable), job prestige (ordinary), job burnout (high), emergency or on-call schedule (often), scope of practice (narrow)
  3. bModel coefficient and corresponding standard error
  4. cOdds ratio and corresponding confidence interval
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