Research Article
Urban Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Disposal Services in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana
Table 2
Logit regression results of factors influencing willingness to pay for improved waste management services.
| Independent variables | Coefficient | Std. errors | values | Marginal effect |
| Education | −0.0154 | 0.0083* | 0.062 | 14.8039 | Length of stay | −0.0093 | 0.0032*** | 0.003 | 11.6667 | Bags of waste generated | 0.0024 | 0.0021 | 0.255 | 17.9608 | Age | 0.0029 | 0.0024 | 0.236 | 48.2157 | Housing arrangement | 0.1630 | 0.0812** | 0.045 | 0.6470 | Distance | −0.0003 | 0.0002* | 0.077 | 0.7135 | Gender | −0.0975 | 0.0410** | 0.018 | 0.8235 | Total income | −0.0003 | 0.0097 | 0.975 | 6.4902 | Satisfaction | −0.0101 | 0.0445 | 0.821 | 0.3333 | Responsibility | −0.0233 | 0.0355 | 0.513 | 2.7255 |
| | Goodness of fit measures | |
| log likelihood | | | −39.0401 | Restr. Log likelihood | | | −108.6294 | McFadden -squared | | | 0.6406 | LR statistic (14 df) | | | 239.1788*** |
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Significant at 1%; significant at 5%; significant at 10%.
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