Research Article
Farmers’ Willingness to Pay a High Premium for Different Types of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China
Table 2
Basic situation of the investigated farmers.
| Type | Options | No. of observations | Percentage (%) |
| Age | Below 30 | 8 | 3.17 | 31∼40 | 54 | 21.43 | 41∼50 | 101 | 40.08 | 51∼60 | 65 | 25.79 | Above 61 | 24 | 9.53 |
| Education level | Primary | 100 | 39.68 | Junior | 119 | 47.22 | High school | 28 | 11.12 | College and above | 5 | 1.98 |
| Profession | Professional farming | 137 | 54.37 | Part-time | 115 | 45.63 |
| Corn planting area (hm2) | Below 1.3 | 30 | 11.9 | 1.3∼4.7 | 139 | 55.16 | 4.7∼8 | 46 | 18.25 | 8∼11.3 | 18 | 7.14 | Above 11.3 | 19 | 7.55 |
| Net household income (ten thousand yuan) | Below 1.16 | 28 | 11.11 | 1.16∼2.99 | 152 | 60.32 | 3.0∼3.99 | 35 | 13.89 | Above 4 | 37 | 14.68 |
| Labour | Below 2 | 177 | 70.24 | Above 3 | 75 | 29.76 |
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