Assessing Perceptions and Adaptation Responses to Climate Change among Small-Scale Fishery on the Northern Coastal of Bengkulu, Indonesia

Table 3

Description of the variables.

Variables	Measurement	Expected sign	Mean	S.D
Age	The number of years from birth	+/−	41.05	10.50
Years of schooling	Total number of years of formal education	+/−	8.77	2.84
Fishing experience	Total number of years into fishing	+/−	17.51	9.06
Household size	Size of respondent’s household	+/−	3.02	1.32
Fishing income	Monthly fishing income in dollars	+	303.09	583.32
Boat power	Engine size of the boat (horsepower)	+	24.93	10.02
Perception of climate change	Score	+	38.94	4.28
Perception of climatic impacts	Score	+	75.85	12.96
Access to climate information	Dummy (1 = fishers can access climate information, 0 = otherwise)	+	0.19	0.39
Access to credit	Dummy (1 = fishers can access credit, 0 = otherwise)	+	0.14	0.35
Fishers’ group membership	Dummy (1 if a fisher belongs to a fishing group and 0 if not)	+	0.20	0.40