Does Off-Farm Work Improve Farm Income? Empirical Evidence from Tolon District in Northern Ghana

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of the variables used for the analysis.

Variable	Full sample		Participants		Nonparticipants		Mean diff.^†
	Mean	S. D.	Mean	S. D.	Mean	S. D.
Farm income	2599	3490	3457	4313	1962	2570	1495
Sex	0.58	0.50	0.52	0.50	0.63	0.49	−0.11
Age	38.3	10.5	37.4	9.43	39.0	11.3	−1.64
Education	6.47	6.91	8.48	7.73	4.98	5.84	3.50
Maize farm size	2.02	2.12	2.63	2.80	1.56	1.26	1.07
Credit access	0.46	0.50	0.47	0.50	0.45	0.50	0.02
Dependents	2.80	2.31	2.17	2.11	3.27	2.36	−1.10

^†The t value of the difference in means between participants and nonparticipants. Statistical significance at 10% level; statistical significance at 5% level; statistical significance at 1% level.