Research Article

Interaction between Rural People’s Basic Needs and Forest Products: A Case Study of the Katha District of Myanmar

Table 5

OLS regression model of collected forest products varieties for both subsistence and income of the forest products against the household characteristics and household income activities ().

Collected forest products varietiesForest cash income Forest total income (cash and subsistence)

Coefficient
Household characteristics
Household size0.1 (±0.1)2106.5 (±1147.1)21395.7 (±3762.2)
Working people−0.1 (±0.1)−4495.0 (±1677.5)−24568.1 (±5161.0)
Sex of HHH1.2 (±0.3)−1147.7 (±4869.8)−13289.9 (±15216.2)
Age of HHH0.0 (±0.0)−182.3 (±130.9)−210.4 (±48.1)
Education level of HHH−0.4 (±0.2)−6992.1 (±2468.6)−9841.7 (±7456.9)
Agricultural land area (ha)−0.1 (±0.0)−823.9 (±399.6)−2449.1 (±1291.4)
Number of livestock0.1 (±0.1)164.1 (±2163.7)−1019.3 (±6787.6)
Constant5.9 (±0.9)71765.3 (±12573.0)164065.9 (±38095.7)

R-square = 0.17, R-square (adjusted) = 0.14, F = 5.16, P > F = 0.00R-square = 0.23, R-square (adjusted) = 0.17, F = 4.25, P > F = 0.00R-square = 0.22, R-square (adjusted) = 0.19, F = 7.29, P > F = 0.00

Household activities
Agricultural income−0.0 (±0.0)0.0 (±0.3)
Livestock income0.0 (±0.0)0.0 (±0.3)
Other incomes−0.0 (±0.0)0.0 (±0.0)
Constant61900.9 (±8351.3)62263.9 (±26648.1)

R-square = 0.19, R-square (adjusted) = 0.12, F = 2.73, P > F = 0.03R-square = 0.14, R-square (adjusted) = 0.09, F = 3.03, P > F = 0.04

; . Parenthesis shows standard error.