Knowledge on Pesticide Handling Practices and Factors Affecting Adoption of Personal Protective Equipment: A Case of Farmers from Nepal

Table 2

Description of variables used in the binary logit model.

Variables	Type	Description	Value	Mean
Dependent variable
Adoption of PPE	Dummy	Farmers are aware of using PPE or not	1 = aware; 0 = unaware	0.73
Independent variable
Gender	Dummy	Sex of the respondent	1 = male, 0 = female	0.59
Age	Continuous	Age of the respondent	Years	39.52
Number of members in the family	Continuous	Family size	Number of people living in a family	5.29
Land ownership	Dummy	Gender	1 = male, 0 = female	0.72
Schooling years	Continuous	Level of education	Years of schooling	9.85
Buying pesticide by name	Dummy	Buying respective pesticide by name or not	1 = buying pesticide by name, 0 = not	0.51
Reading labels	Dummy	Reading labels after buying or not	1 = reading labels, 0 = not reading labels	0.45
Training related to pesticide	Dummy	Attended training or not	1 = attended, 0 = not attended	0.21