Research Article

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

Table 4

Willingness to pay £ (95% confidence intervals) for four latent classes.

Attributes and/or levelsClass 1 (48%)Class 2 (20%)Class 3 (18%)Class 4 (14%)

Information about quality717 (300–1,135)519 (273–765)17 (−63–97)784 (517–1050)
Information about finances623 (242–1,003)241 (72–409)−95 (−187–−3)492 (320–664)
Information about availability373 (67–679)229 48–410−112 (−181–−44)776 (601–951)
Help to “think things through”954 (452–1,456)45 (−110–200)177 (115–239)121 (−16–259)
Who will help me? Information
from one person (ref: vs. information
from multiple people)
491 (218–764)47 (−33–128)30 (−2–62)46 (−40–131)
Council provides service−139 (−322–43)7 (−105–120)−18 (−66–29)375 (243–508)
Charity provides service315 (74–557)73 (−51–196)16 (−33–64)26 (−101–154)
Private company provides service−176 (−600–248)−80 (−316–156)3 (−93–99)−402 (−662–−141)
Service available immediately
(ref: vs. wait a few weeks)
323 (118–529)88 (14–162)−7 (−42–27)−112 (64–161)
Alternative specific constant740 (205–1,276)−777 (−162–14)205 (100–309)−456 (−721–191)

The intrinsic value of the navigation service. It is the value for a navigation service that provides no information or help to arrange care and has an average effect for who provides information, who provides the service, and when the service is available.