Akwataghibe, NgoziSamaranayake, DulaniLemiere, ChristopheDieleman, Marjolein2015-11-302015-11-302013-10-04BMC Health Services Researchhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/23157The setting of realistic performance-based financing rewards necessitates not just knowledge of health workers’ salaries, but of the revenue that accrues from their additional income-generating activities. This study examined the coping mechanisms of health workers in the public health sector of Nasarawa and Ondo states in Nigeria to supplement their salaries and benefits; it also estimated the proportionate value of the revenues from those coping mechanisms in relation to the health workers’ official incomes.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOsalariescoping mechanismshealth workersmixed methodsrandomized response techniqueJournal ArticleWorld Bank10.1596/23157