Determinants of Member Participation in Activities of Multipurpose Primary Cooperatives: The Case of Kindo Koysha District, Southern Ethiopia

Table 9

Relationship between institutional factors and member participation.

Institutional Factors	Participation categories		Mean		Sth. deviation		r		F	value
Distance from MPPC Service	Low		1.68		.614
	Medium		1.62		.601
	High		1.31		.602
	Total		1.59		0.644		0.165		1.918	0.152NS
Access to agricultural inputs	Low		1.92		1.287
	Medium		2.14		1.613
	High		3.02		2.289
	Total		2.19		1.646		0.200		2.659	0.075
Rendered services by MPPCs	Rendered services by MPPCs
	Participation categories	V. good			Good		Satisfactory	Poor	X^2	value
		%			%		%	%
	Low	0			4.7		17.9	15
	Medium	7.5			4.7		14.2	20.8
	High	4.7			1.8		3.8	4.7
	Total	12.3			11.3		35.8	40.6	5.310	0.025

NS: not significant, significant at the probability level of 5%, and significant at the 10% probability level (source: Own Survey, 2020).