Effects of COVID-19 on Coffee Market Participation of Smallholder Coffee Producers’ in Godere District, Southwestern Ethiopia
Table 1
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of respondents.
Variables
Options
Participants (N = 312)
Nonparticipants (N = 72)
Total
X2 value
N
%
N
%
N
%
Sex of respondents
Male
213
68.27
48
66.67
261
67.97
0.781
Female
99
31.73
24
33.33
123
32.03
Using credit
Not user
103
33.01
16
22.22
119
30.99
0.09
User
209
66.99
56
77.78
265
69.01
Membership in cooperatives
Not member of cooperatives
207
66.35
35
48.61
242
63.01
0.007
Member of cooperatives
105
33.65
37
51.39
142
36.99
Women empowerment
Empowered
285
91.35
68
94.44
353
91.93
0.478
Not empowered
27
8.65
4
5.56
31
8.07
Access to market information
Access to market information
244
78.21
59
81.94
303
78.91
0.526
No access to market information
68
21.79
13
18.06
81
21.09
Transport facility
Having transport facility
164
52.56
38
52.78
182
47.40
0.360
Not having transport facility
168
53.85
34
47.22
202
52.61
Source: own data computation (2021). N= numbers of category/ frequency; %= percentage. ∗∗∗, ∗∗, and ∗ estimates are significant at 1%, 5%, and 10% levels, respectively.
