A Discrete Choice Experiment of Older Self-Funders’ Preferences When Navigating Community Social Care

Table 3

DCE survey-aggregated results and willingness to pay £^∗ (confidence intervals).

Attributes and/or levels	Willingness to pay (£)^∗ (confidence intervals)	Coefficient (SE)	values
Information about quality	285 (206–364)	1.109 (0.140)	<0.001
Information about finances	198 (129–267)	0.772 (0.126)	<0.001
Information about availability	192 (123–261)	0.747 (0.126)	<0.001
Help to “think things through”	212 (143–281)	0.827 (0.128)	<0.001
Who will help me? Information from one person (ref: vs. information from multiple people)	130 (97–163)	0.508 (0.062)	<0.001
Council provides service	−10 (−49–29)	−0.039 (0.079)	0.62
Charity provides service	59 (16–103)	0.231 (0.087)	0.008
Private company provides service	−49 (−132–34)	−0.191 (0.092)	0.037
Service available immediately (ref: vs. wait a few weeks)	69 (36–102)	0.268 (0.062)	<0.001
Cost of the service	—	−0.004 (0.000)	<0.001
Constant	−58 (−177–61)	−0.225 (0.234)	0.337
No. of individuals		182

From an uncorrelated random parameter logit model.