The impact of different care dependencies on people’s willingness to provide informal care: a discrete choice experiment in Germany

Table 4 Conditional logit model (main effects only)

Attributes / levels	Coeff	OR	95% CI	SE	p-value	MWTA
Duration (Ref: 6 months)
2 years	–0.332	0.718	(–0.577; − 0.086)	0.125	0.008*	9.26
5 years	–1.360	0.257	(–1.642; − 1.077)	0.144	0.000*	37.98
Care time (Ref: 2 h/day)
5 h/day	–1.108	0.330	(–1.328; − 0.886)	0.113	0.000*	30.94
8 h/day	–2.011	0.134	(–2.239; − 1.783)	0.123	0.000*	56.18
Formal care services (Ref: None)
3–4 times/week	0.358	1.430	(0.117; 0.599)	0.122	0.000*	–9.99
Daily	1.021	2.775	(0.782; 1.260)	0.122	0.000*	–28.51
Respite (Ref: None)
3 weeks/year	–0.082	0.921	(–0.283; 0.119)	0.103	0.424	2.29
6 weeks/year	0.029	1.030	(–0.201; 0.260)	0.118	0.803	–0.82
Care dependency (Ref: physical)	0.220	1.246	(0.061; 0.378)	0.081	0.007*	6.14
Monetary compensation (€/hour)	0.036	1.037	(0.015; 0.057)	0.011	0.001*
Log likelihood	– 1375.2
Pseudo R²	0.21983
No. of observations	3,120
No. of coefficients	10

Legend: Coeff = Coefficient, OR = Odds ratio, *significant at p < 0.05, SE = standard error, MWTA = marginal willingness to accept (€/hour), Ref = Reference category, Ref: physical = physically impaired

ISSN: 2191-1991