Swiss Nursing Graduate Job Preference Survey with Discrete Choice Experiment

A Discrete Choice Experiment survey was developed and pretested to measure the importance of job attributes for Swiss registered nurse graduates. The final instrument included nine attributes with two or three levels, presented in 18 choice sets. Two pretests involved 67 and 53 graduating students, leading to wording refinements and confirming a 15–30 minute completion time.

Use Cases

• Modeling job attribute trade-offs based on the nine identified job characteristics.
• Analyzing shifts in attribute prioritization based on wording changes, as revealed in the pretests.
• Informing healthcare recruitment strategies based on the preferences of graduating nursing students.

Strengths

• The survey design includes an internal consistency test and socio-demographic data collection.
• Two iterative pretests with a total of 120 participants were conducted to refine the instrument.
• The final DCE design is statistically optimal, using a D-efficient experimental design.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is contained in a 187.1 KB DOCX file, which is a tiny dataset with limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Jana Bartakova via figshare.

Collection Method

Survey development involved literature review, expert interviews, and two pretests with graduating nursing students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-01 05:24:39

Geography

Switzerland