Livelihoods and Welfare Impacts of Forest Comanagement

Table 5

Factors affecting households’ willingness to pay a membership fee to participate in comanagement programme in Zomba and Ntchisi districts.

	Probit model (WTP = 1)
	Coefficients	Bootstrapped; Std. errors
Perceived overall impact dummy (1 = benefiting, 0 = not benefiting)	0.43	(0.23)
Wealth indicator (ordinal scale, 4–11)	0.11	(0.08)
Number of years in school	0.07	(0.03)
Committee member (1 = yes, 0 = no)	0.36	(0.25)
Land size (in hectares)	0.03	(0.03)
District (1 = Ntchisi, 0 = Zomba)	0.17	(0.22)
Gender of household head (1 = female, 0 = male)	−0.20	(0.22)
Married (1 = yes, 0 = no)	0.07	(0.12)
Household size (number of adults and children)	0.03	(0.05)
Age of household head (in years)	−0.00	(0.01)
_cons	−0.82	(0.79)
Prob > chi2	0.02
Number of observations	213
Pseudo	0.10
Log pseudo likelihood	−95.13

Significance levels (: 10% and : 5%).