Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Trends and Adaptation Strategies in Semiarid Highlands of Eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Table 1

Means, standard deviations, and pairwise correlations among variables (n = 358).

Variables	Mean	SD	value	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Sex of HH (% males)	0.77	0.42	0.001
Age of HH	52.4	12.27	0.001	0.28^a
Education of HH	2.26	2.98	0.359	0.29^a	−0.34^a
Access to AESs (% yes)	0.62	0.48	0.001	−0.08	−0.13^b	0.07
Climate information (% yes)	0.71	0.45	0.001	−0.14	−0.15^a	0.04	0.66^a
HH’s own radio/TV (% yes)	0.40	0.49	0.196	0.11^b	−0.05	0.17^a	0.14^b	0.04
Access to FTC	0.28	0.45	0.001	0.01	−0.08	0.13^b	0.27^a	0.22^a	0.11^b
Number of off-farm activities	0.86	0.66	0.001	0.10^b	−0.16^a	0.12^b	−0.21^a	−0.08	0.06	−0.03
Distance to the market (minutes)	52.48	69.87	0.001	0.13^b	0.13^a	−0.08	−0.47^a	−0.48^a	−0.01	−0.15^a	0.16^a
Number of social networks	1.41	1.53	0.001	0.02	−0.14^a	0.22^a	0.25^a	0.22^a	0.22^a	0.26^a	−0.05	0.22^a

^aSignificant at the 0.01 level; ^bsignificant at the 0.05 level; HH = household head. value stands for ANOVA and chi-square tests of continuous and categorical variables, respectively.