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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