Table 2.

Means and Standard Deviation for Satisfaction and Market-Level Variables (Weighted)

	Single Female		Married Female
	Working in Nursing; Mean (SD), n=505,834*	Not Working in Nursing; Mean (SD), n=101,978*	Working in Nursing; Mean (SD), n=1,191,536*	Not Working in Nursing; Mean (SD), n=288,680*
Feeling about job compared with last year (1=extremely satisfied, 5=extremely dissatisfied)	2.40	N/A	2.31	N/A
	(1.14)		(1.10)
Log hourly wage rate in primary and secondary position	3.15	N/A	3.14	N/A
	(0.32)		(0.33)
Predicted log market wage†	3.15	3.18	3.15	3.17
(0.14)	(0.11)	(0.14)	(0.11)
Log other income	5.45	10.22	10.22	11.20
(4.34)	(0.83)	(2.04)	(0.68)
Medical, surgical and other specialists per 1,000 population	1.78	1.77	1.74	1.72
	(0.75)	(0.61)	(0.70)	(0.64)
Primary care practitioners per 1,000 population	0.23	0.22	0.23	0.23
	(0.09)	(0.08)	(0.08)	(0.08)
Percent of population uninsured	13.83	13.60	13.49	13.47
	(3.90)	(3.71)	(3.89)	(3.85)
Unemployment rate in 2000	3.68	3.58	3.66	3.63
	(1.52)	(1.09)	(1.38)	(1.39)
Index of competition among HMOs	0.70	0.72	0.69	0.70
	(0.18)	(0.14)	(0.18)	(0.16)
Percent of HMO hospital services paid through fee schedules	14.78	13.07	15.55	14.24
	(13.10)	(12.29)	(13.54)	(12.86)
Percent of population non-HMO Medicaid beneficiaries	7.79	7.47	7.66	7.27
	(4.94)	(4.68)	(4.77)	(4.62)

^*Each sample size is weighted based on its observed numbers: 6,282 for single working females; 1,160 for single nonworking females; 14,725 for married working females; and 3,304 for married nonworking females.

^†Log predicted market wage was calculated based on the results of the OLS regression on log RN hourly wage controlling for sex, race, highest nursing education, years since graduation, region of employment, specialists per 1,000 population, and primary care practitioners per 1,000 population.

HMO, health maintenance organization.