Research Article
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 | X2 | 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 |
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NS: not significant, significant at the probability level of 5%, and significant at the 10% probability level (source: Own Survey, 2020). |