Determinants of Garlic Producers Market Outlet Choices in Goncha Siso Enese District, Northwest Ethiopia: A Multivariate Probit Regression Analysis

Table 2

Summary of explanatory variables and working hypothesis.

Variables	Measures	Expected outcome on major market outlet choice
		Cons	Reta	Whols	Assem
Age	Continuous (years)	+	+	+	+
Sex	Dummy (1 for male, 0 otherwise)	+	+	+	+
Household size	Continuous (no of person)	+	+	+	+
Education (in year of schooling)	Continuous (grade)	+	+	+	+
Livestock holding	Continuous (in TLU)	+	+	+	+
Land size	Continuous (in hectare)	+	+	+	+
Frequency of extension contact	Continuous (in number)	+	+	+	+
Access to credit	Dummy (1 has got credit, 0 otherwise)	−	+	+	+
Distance to market	Continuous (in walking hours)	−	−	−	−
Access to market information	Dummy (1 has access, 0 otherwise)	−	+	+	+
Lagged price of garlic	Continuous (in birr/quintal)	−	−	+	−
Quantity of output sold	Continuous (in quintal)	−	+	+	+
Garlic farming experience	Continuous(in years)	+	+	+	+
Land size allocated to garlic	Continuous (in hectare)	−	−	+	+

Note. “Cons,” “Reta,” “Whols,” and “Assem” refers to consumers, retailers, wholesalers, and assembles, respectively. Source: own composition (2022).