Climate Variability and Farmers’ Perception in Southern Ethiopia

Table 1

Results of the binary logit model for aggregate sample and agroecological zones.

Explanatory variables	Mean	SD	Aggregate (1)		Highland AEZ (2)		Midland AEZ (3)		Lowland AEZ (4)
			Regression	Marginal effect	Regression	Marginal effect	Regression	Marginal effect	Regression	Marginal effect
Age (years)	44.62	14.06	−0.014	−0.003	−0.019	−0.004	−0.013	−0.003
Total land size (ha)	0.78	0.79	−0.200	−0.046			−0.041	−0.010	−0.338	−0.081
Distance to village market (km)	2.87	4.98	−0.082	−0.019	−0.161	−0.030	−0.047	−0.011
Dependency ratio (number)	0.87	0.73	−0.231	−0.053	−0.563	−0.107
Food secured months (number)	7.29	2.85	−0.148	−0.034	−0.063	−0.012	−0.141	−0.033	−0.249	−0.060
ln (household productive assets)	6.21	1.10			−0.243	−0.046
Gender (1 = male)	264	65.51%	−0.666	−0.148	−0.894	−0.157	−0.489	−0.111	−1.253	−0.276
Education (1 = primary)	154	38.21%	0.654	0.147	0.855	0.149			0.103	0.025
Climate information (1 = yes)	280	69.48%	1.113	0.264			1.650	0.387	0.030	0.007
Market information (1 = yes)	234	58.06%	0.590	0.137	1.193	0.229			0.960	0.228
Participation in nonfarm (1 = yes)	109	27.05%	−0.585	−0.139	−1.621	−0.341	−0.408	−0.096
Access to credit (1 = yes)	120	29.78%	−0.177	−0.041			−0.250	−0.059
Agroecology (1 = lowland)	115	28.54%	−0.774	−0.184
Improved seed (1 = yes)	154	38.21%	0.851	0.189	2.418	0.388			0.868	0.208
Received training (1 = yes)	80	19.85%	1.078	0.220	0.340	0.062	1.305	0.257
Irrigation use (1 = yes)	19	4.71%							−0.786	−0.194
Constant			1.808		3.945		1.528		1.671
N			403		90		198		115
LR chi^2			85.95		34.16		47.14		28.73
Prob > chi^2			0.001		0.001		0.001		0.001
Pseudo R^2			0.160		0.302		0.178		0.183

Significant at ; significant at ; significant at .