Livelihoods and Welfare Impacts of Forest Comanagement

Table 6

Factors affecting how much households’ willingness to pay a membership fee to participate in comanagement programme in Zomba and Ntchisi districts (in Malawi Kwacha).

	OLS model		⁢Tobit model
	Coefficients	Bootstrapped; Std. errors	Coefficients	Bootstrapped; Std. errors
District (1 = Ntchisi, 0 = Zomba)	−697.60	(304.77)	−646.07	(347.16)
Household size (number of adults and children)	−11.56	(44.93)	−26.00	(56.93)
Wealth indicator (ordinal scale, 4–11)	298.69	(132.17)	412.54	(191.84)
Gender of household head (1 = female, 0 = male)	−520.47	(322.91)	−610.48	(−587.61)
Number of years in school	−15.41	(73.70)	−32.15	(79.03)
Married (1 = yes, 0 = no)	146.18	(128.76)	210.23	(152.19)
Age of household head (in years)	−4.66	(17.73)	−11.26	(21.29)
Committee member (1 = yes, 0 = no)	−366.79	(269.37)	−280.87	(318.15)
Land size (in hectares)	60.59	(35.10)	89.54	(48.23)
Perceived overall impact dummy (1 = benefiting, 0 = not benefiting)	172.68	(338.46)	333.89	(421.54)
_cons	−15.13	(690.11)	−1479.25	(1293.83)
sigma_cons			2736.98	(831.17)
Prob > chi2	0.01		0.02
Number	213		213
-squared	0.07
Root MSE	2435.68
Pseudo			0.01
Log likelihood			−1599.19

Significance levels (: 10%; : 5%; and : 0.01%).