Migration of South African health workers: the extent to which financial considerations influence internal flows and external movements

Table 6 Salaries and other factors predicting decisions to migrate abroad (N = 694)

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	OR	95%CI	OR	95%CI	OR	95%CI
Monthly Salaries
R20000+ ($2857)
R2000-6000 ($285-$856)	1.14	0.16 - 7.63	0.85	0.08 - 3.51	0.81	0.66 - 1.88
R6000-10000 ($856-$1428)	1.04	0.16 - 6.91	0.89	0.09 - 6.06	1.16	0.11 - 2.67
R10000-20000 ($1428-$2857)	1.62	0.15 - 2.02	1.24	0.15 - 1.06	1.48	0.14 - 5.78
Social Economic Characteristics
Job Title
(Medical Doctors)
Professional Nurses			0.75	0.04 - 3.73	0.54	0.02 - 3.89
Enrolled Nurses			0.91	0.42 - 8.38	0.07	0.02 - 9.35
Nursing Assistants			0.81	0.03 - 9.63	0.65	0.01 - 2.16
Current Age			0.43**	0.98 - 1.86	1.04*	0.99 - 1.11
Currently Married			1.77	0.42 - 7.17	1.94	0.36 - 1.29
Female			1.44	0.71 - 5.98	1.29	0.57 - 2.93
(Lower Sec + upper and vocation)			2.46*	1.01 - 5.94	2.11*	0.76 - 5.23
Work experience and perceptions
Average hours of work per week					1.03	0.95 - 1.03
Length of time worked					0.71	0.23 - 2.18
Does not have a heavy workload					0.89	0.71 - 1.12
Not stressed at work					0.95*	0.77 - 4.89
No Job Satisfaction					1.58*	1.24 - 1.87
Log likelihood	−163.502		−99.561		−80.189
Pseudo-R²	0.0169		0.06		0.0095
N	275		182		154

Notes: Reference category in Parenthesis.
Significant at + P < 0.1, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.
OR: Odds Ratios among lower and higher salary earners and other SES and work experience variables.
CI: Confidence interval at 95%.

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