Rural Households’ Demand Status for Mitigation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC Invasion and Its Determinant Factors in Ethiopia: Empirical Evidence from Afar National Regional State

Table 1

Summary of measurement, type, and hypothesis of the variables.

Variables	Type of variables	Measurement	Hypothesis
Dependent variables
WTP1/WTP2	Dummy	(1 if yes, 0 if no)
Independent variables
Initial bid (Bid1)	Continuous	Labor days	−ve
Follow-up bid (Bid2)	Continuous	Labor days	−ve
Age of the HH	Discrete	Number of years	−ve
Sex of the HH	Dummy	1 if male or 0 otherwise	+ve
Education level of the HH	Discrete	Number of years in school	+ve
Annual farm income	Continuous	Eth. birr (ETB^1)	+ve
Non/off-farm income	Continuous	Eth. birr (ETB)	−/+
Security of tenure	Dummy	1 if secured or 0 otherwise	+ve
Past awareness	Dummy	1 if aware or 0 otherwise	+ve
Freq. of extension contact	Discrete	Number of days	+ve
Distance from the market	Continuous	Walking minutes	−ve
Farming experience	Discrete	Years	+ve
Years lived in the area	Continuous	Years	+ve
Size of own land	Continuous	Hectare	+ve
Family size	Continuous	Adult equivalent (AE)	−/+
Dependency ratio	Continuous	Numbers	−ve
Livestock holding	Continuous	Tropical livestock unit (TLU)	+ve

¹ETB stands for Ethiopian birr, which is the official currency of the country.