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.