Research Article

Effects of Income and Price on Household’s Charcoal Consumption in Three Cities of Tanzania

Table 1

Transformed and untransformed mean values and standard deviations (SD) of the data input used in the regression analysis for the total sample and distributed on income classes (C, P, I, and H as defined in equation (1)).

Consumption (C)Income (I)Price (P)Household size (H)

Log-transformedMeanAll4.8313.726.141.58
Low income4.8212.536.171.53
Medium income4.8513.966.041.56
High income4.8015.246.291.70
SDAll0.511.180.370.44
Low income0.520.690.360.45
Medium income0.530.940.360.45
High income0.450.610.370.35

UntransformedMeanAll141.901,766,337496.795.31
Low income141.92346,735510.145.07
Medium income146.051,349,851446.175.28
High income133.584,998,634575.485.77
SDAll72.502,338,354198.112.23
Low income74.97257,798193.632.21
Medium income76.24841,334175.322.39
High income59.653,160,864220.691.85