Impact of Improved Forage Technology Adoption on Dairy Productivity and Household Income: A Propensity Score Matching Estimation in Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics for continuous variables (t-test).

Types of variables	Adopter (N = 192)		Nonadopter (N = 128)		Combined		t-value	value
	Mean	Std	Mean	Std	Mean	Std
Age (number)	42.61	11.3	45.5	12.87	44.34	12.33	2.064	0.039
Education (year)	1.16	0.88	0.59	0.755	0.815	0.85	−6.1707	0.0000
TLU (number)	8.65	3.89	6.54	3.42	7.39	3.76	−5.1040	0.0000
Farm size (hectare)	2.61	1.24	1.90	1.12	2.19	1.22	−5.3363	0.0000
Market distance (walking distance in minutes)	34.24	24.92	32.57	23.77	33.24	24.21	−0.6038	0.5464

The symbols , , and denote statistical significance at 10%, 5%, and 1% level, respectively. Source: authors’ analysis using primary data (2021).