Factors Influencing Household Livelihood Diversification: The Case of Kebri Dahar District, Korahey Zone of Somali Region, Ethiopia
Table 7
Factors influencing livelihood diversification in terms of (on-farm, off-farm, and nonfarm activity).
Result of a multinomial logistic regression
Covariates
On-farm
Off-farm
Nonfarm
B
Std. error
Sig
Exp (B)
B
Std. error
Sig
Exp (B)
B
Std. error
Sig
Exp (B)
Intercept
5.432
2.299
0.018
3.165
2.570
0.218
6.215
2.497
0.013
Sex
2.775
0.485
0.000
16.037
2.487
0.549
0.000
12.021
1.528
0.513
0.003
4.610
Age
−0.062
0.020
0.002
0.940
−0.116
0.023
0.000
0.890
−0.081
0.022
0.000
0.922
Education
−1.182
0.303
0.000
0.307
−0.244
0.295
0.408
0.784
0.068
0.269
0.801
1.070
Dependent ration
0.009
0.179
0.961
1.009
0.318
0.200
0.111
1.375
0.600
0.190
0.002
1.822
TLU
0.041
0.013
0.002
1.042
0.069
0.014
0.000
1.071
0.017
0.015
0.266
1.017
Market distance
−0.102
0.177
0.564
0.903
−0.012
0.196
0.950
0.988
−0.436
0.191
0.022
0.647
Transportation
0.060
0.222
0.788
1.062
−0.502
0.303
0.097
0.605
0.173
0.248
0.485
1.189
Saving
−1.037
0.548
0.059
0.355
−0.177
0.633
0.780
0.838
−1.408
0.590
0.017
0.245
Credit
−0.458
0.709
0.519
0.633
−0.772
0.733
0.292
0.462
−2.316
0.668
0.001
0.099
Cooperative
0.683
0.494
0.166
1.980
−0.753
0.559
0.178
0.471
1.096
0.560
0.050
2.992
Productive safety net. P
−0.366
0.472
0.438
0.694
1.094
0.569
0.055
2.987
0.388
0.519
0.454
1.474
Number of obs = 119, LR chi2 (77) = 242.28, prob > chi2 = 0.0000 logarithmic likelihood = −87.826054 pseudo R2 = 0.5797,, and significant level at 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively. Source: own survey result (2022).
