Value Chain Analysis of Highland Bamboo (Yushania alpina) in Banja District, Awi Zone, Ethiopia

Table 6

The result of multicollinearity tests for continuous and dummy variables.

Variables	VIF	1/VIF
Number of culms harvested	2.40	0.42
Land for bamboo plantation	1.65	0.61
Age	1.40	0.71
Family size	1.33	0.75
Distance	1.18	0.85
Frequency of extension service	1.14	0.87
Price	1.06	0.95
Mean VIF	1.45
Variables		Contingency coefficient for dummy variables
Education		0.73
Access to market information		0.59
Silviculture management		0.60
Value addition participation		0.48