Skip to main content

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

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

 

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

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

BMC Health Services Research

ISSN: 1472-6963

Contact us