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

Table 6

Factors influencing the awareness of the use of PPE.

Parameters	Coefficient	SE	Z		dy/dx
Gender	0.276258	0.3493992	0.08	0.937	0.046682
Age	0.0093598	0.0147979	0.63	0.527	0.0015816
Land ownership	0.4555738	0.35922354	1.27	0.205	0.0769828
Number of members in the family	0.386234	0.0824015	0.47	0.639	0.0065266
Schooling years	0.0781277	0.0390427	2.00	0.045	0.013202
Buying pesticide by name	0.9777317	0.322994	3.03	0.002	0.1652169
Reading labels	1.004339	0.3645625	2.75	0.006	0.1697131
Training related to pesticide	0.9218546	0.4811389	1.92	0.055	0.1557748
_cons	-0.6174914	0.9515647	-0.65	0.516	—

Log likelihood = −140.691, LR chi² = 36.89, pseudo R² = 0.115, significant at 1%, significant at 5%.