How Small-Scale Farmers Understand Rain Water Harvesting Technology? Evidence from Northern Ethiopia

Table 3

The explanatory variables, unit of measurement, character, and expected signs.

Variable type	Character	Expected direction with the level of adoption
1. Household head age (AGE), years	Continuous	+
2. Sex of the house hold heads	Dummy (0, female and male, 1)	+
3. Level of education (EDUCYRS), years	Continuous	+
4. Size of the household (HHSIZE)	Continuous	+
5. Farm size	Continuous	+
6. Location/topography	Dummy (0, steep slope and 1, plain)	−
7. Off-farm income	Continuous	+
8. Distance FTC	Continuous	−
9. Distance of the farm land	Continuous	+

Source: author’s survey (2019).