Contribution of Fuel Wood Income from Natural Forests to Household Economy in Delanta District, Northeastern Ethiopia
Table 8
Results of regression model for dependency on fuelwood income from the forest.
Independent factors
Coefficient
Standard error
T
Significance
Constant
86.87571
5.842047
14.87
0.000
Age
−0.23173
0.089644
−2.58
0.011
Sex
0.77981
2.37242
0.33
0.743
Educational status
−3.59055
1.050582
−3.42
0.001
Number of family members
1.57467
0.65253
2.41
0.017
Land size owned
0.439922
1.949995
0.23
0.822
Distance to forest
−1.66472
0.518441
−3.21
0.002
Distance to market
−2.68794
0.508229
−5.29
0.000
Number of trees owned
−0.10047
0.024053
−4.18
0.000
Nonforest income
−0.00036
6.45E−5
−5.58
0.000
Number of obs = 126, Prob > F = 0.0000, R-squared = 0.7469, Adj R-squared = 0.7272, F = 38.03, and the level of significance at 5% and 1%, respectively.
