Determinants of Wheat Commercialization among Smallholder Farmers in Debre Elias Woreda, Ethiopia

Table 7

Parameter estimates of the beta regression model.

Variables	Coef.	Std. err.	z-value		Marginal effect
Sex of household head	−0.0219	0.0749	−0.2900	0.7700	−0.0046
Educational status	0.2054	0.0798	2.5700	0.0100	0.0433
Dependency ratio	−0.1238	0.1087	−1.1400	0.2550	−0.0261
Annual income	0.1137	0.0591	1.9200	0.0540	0.0240
Number of oxen owned	0.2053	0.0729	2.8200	0.0050	0.0433
Land size (wheat)	0.8003	0.0980	8.1700	0.0000	0.1688
Farming experience (wheat)	0.3944	0.0803	4.9100	0.0000	0.0832
Extension service	0.2805	0.0693	4.0500	0.0000	0.0592
Credit service utilization	0.0532	0.0731	0.7300	0.4660	0.0112
Market distance	−0.4755	0.0865	−5.5000	0.0000	−0.1003
Constant	−0.2269	0.7410	−0.3100	0.7590
LR chi^2 (10)					245.44
Log-likelihood					157.07
Observations					154

Source: own survey (2018); and significant at and 0.1, respectively.