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 2
Descriptive statistics for continuous independent variables.
Variables
Willing (n = 293)
Nonwilling (n = 20)
t value
Mean
Std. dev
Mean
Std. dev
Age of the HH
44.41
10.69
58.20
7.00
5.68
Education level of the HH
0.32
1.33
2.15
3.41
5.13
Annual farm income
29016.88
20422.75
43595
19037.34
3.10
Non/off-farm income
4754.95
8506.59
24057.50
9349.81
9.76
Freq. of extension contact
5.23
4.69
0.65
1.18
−4.35
Distance from the market
101.57
121.58
73.65
29.27
−1.02
Farming experience
22.12
13.19
23.60
10.02
0.49
Years lived in the area
36.65
12.32
38.30
12.84
0.58
Size of own land
0.74
0.84
0.18
0.37
−2.99
Family size in AE
4.34
1.55
2.72
1.03
−4.59
Dependency ratio
1.29
1.04
1.09
1.01
−0.85
Livestock holding (TLU)
22.52
22.30
9.72
7.06
−2.56
Initial bid (Bid1)
9.30
5.70
14.20
4.30
3.77
and show significant variables at 1% and 5% probability levels, respectively. Source: own survey results, 2021.
