Table 5. Multiple regression model for predicting whether health worker currently works in and has long-term preference to work in rural health facility.

	Currently working in rural area			Has long-term preference to work in rural area
	est	SE	p-value	est	SE	p-value
is female	-0.029	0.028	0.330	-0.016	0.016	0.340
age	-0.026	0.011	0.043**	-0.028	0.016	0.130
age squared	0.000	0.000	0.147	0.000	0.000	0.215
has a spouse or is engaged	0.050	0.040	0.249	0.018	0.041	0.676
number of children	-0.001	0.009	0.882	0.012	0.008	0.158
socio-economic family background (1–5)	-0.027	0.013	0.083*	-0.021	0.012	0.131
grew up in rural area	-0.001	0.052	0.984	0.046	0.038	0.271
exposed to rural areas during training	-0.045	0.047	0.369	0.039	0.018	0.064*
has experience in rural area	0.146	0.066	0.064*	0.017	0.044	0.706
number of years of experience in rural area	0.024	0.004	<0.001***	0.010	0.004	0.034**
extrinsic motivation (external regulation)	0.030	0.017	0.134	-0.029	0.014	0.071*
intrinsic motivation	-0.028	0.012	0.043**	0.011	0.006	0.113
currently works in rural area				-0.101	0.042	0.045**
N	592			592
r2	0.267			0.130

Note: Robust standard errors clustered by region;

*p<0.1,

**p<0.05,

***p<0.01.