Economic Contribution to Local Livelihoods and Households Dependency on Dry Land Forest Products in Hammer District, Southeastern Ethiopia

Table 3

OLS regression of household forest income (A) and forest income dependence (B) against socioeconomic characteristics.

Factor	⁢(A) Forest income				(B) Forest income dependence
	Coefficient	SE	-value	value	Coefficient	SE	-value	value
Constant	1463.596	1576.25	0.929	0.355	19.99	13.603	1.47	0.144
Site (dummy, 1 if pastoral site)	494.499	534.478	0.929	0.357	13.083	5.074	2.578
Sex of household head (dummy, 1 if male)	−77.247	271.202	−0.285	0.776	−7.276	3.175	−2.292
Age of household head (yrs)	25.948	17.918	1.448	0.15	0.014	0.178	0.079	0.94
Household size (number)	258.303	106.476	2.426	0.017	1.409	0.672	2.097
Land size (in hectare)	−156.805	113.184	−1.385	0.168	−2.358	0.7	−3.369
TLU (tropical livestock unit)	−10.95	17.621	−0.621	0.535	−0.655	0.171	−3.83	0
TLU squared	0.066	0.137	0.482	0.632	0.005	0.001	3.25
Access to extension (dummy, 1 if yes)	949.616	303.252	3.131		6.268	2.611	2.401
Nonfarm activity (dummy, 1 if yes)	−672.183	224.207	−2.998		−5.623	2.019	−2.785
Distance to market (in km)	−152.298	49.471	−3.079		−0.728	0.503	−1.447	0.15
Distance to forest (in km)	−315.238	121.513	−2.594		−1.328	1.154	−1.151	0.252
-square	0.41				0.37
-value	12.27				5.42
value	0.000				0.000

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