Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Participation in Improved Sheep Production: The Case of Doyogena District, Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
Table 5
Descriptive statistics’ results of discrete explanatory variables.
Variables
Participants
Nonparticipants
value
Chi-square
Freq.
%
Freq.
%
Sex
Male
42
82.4
58
62.4
0.009
6.201
Female
9
17.6
35
37.6
Total
51
100
93
100
Access to animals health services (AHS)
Yes
36
70.6
24
25.8
0.0001
27.176
No
15
29.4
69
74.2
Total
51
100
93
100
Membership of cooperatives (MSC)
Yes
38
74.5
25
26.9
0.0001
30.361
No
13
25.5
68
73.1
Total
51
100
95
100
Credit utilization (CU)
Yes
40
78.4
30
32.3
0.0001
28.110
No
11
21.6
63
67.7
Total
51
100
93
100
(Source: computed from own survey data, 2018); Freq. = frequency; % = percentage; = probability; , (1% and 5%) significance, respectively.
