Research Article
Factors Influencing Household Livelihood Diversification: The Case of Kebri Dahar District, Korahey Zone of Somali Region, Ethiopia
Table 5
Descriptive result for continuous variables on diversification of households.
| Explanatory variables | Sample HHs N = 119 (100%) | Diversified HHs N = 63 | Not diversified. HH N = 56 | t-value | Mean | Std. deviation | Mean | Std. deviation |
| Age (yrs) | 36.1429 | 11.87007 | 41.0893 | 14.57554 | 2.039 | Dependency ratio | 3.3333 | 1.61645 | 3.3214 | 1.61928 | −0.040 | Livestock (TLU) | 24.0312 | 20.45233 | 23.6839 | 23.85668 | −0.085 | Market distance (?) | 4.0794 | 1.31126 | 4.0357 | 1.30683 | −0.182 | Access to transport | 1.8095 | 0.83968 | 1.8571 | 0.96160 | 0.288 | Education (year of schooling) | 1.9841 | 1.34994 | 1.6071 | 1.13904 | −1.635 |
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Source: own survey result (2022).
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