Modeling the Amount of Waste Generated by Households in the Greater Accra Region Using Artificial Neural Networks

Table 3

Descriptive statistics of some important independent variables.

Input variable	Categories	N	Average waste	Std. error
Districts	Ledzekuku Krowor	218	339.3541	19.5854
	Tema West	128	268.2114	25.9443
	Asheidu Keteke	145	98.1131	5.7312
	Ashaiman	127	95.1465	7.3129
	Ayawaso West	108	71.6173	6.1112
	Kpone Katamanso	140	50.5609	1.7668
	Adenta	56	43.0351	3.8554
	La Nkwantanang	152	35.8380	1.0795
	Tema East	100	35.1688	2.1869
	Ablekuma	162	26.8360	1.3132
	La Dade-Kotopon	136	25.3088	0.8195
	Korle Klottey	158	17.1120	0.9357
	Ayawaso East	159	16.6744	0.4495
	Okaikoi South	150	10.5041	0.5572
	Okaikoi North	163	5.4072	0.1378
Employment category	Formal	959	87.5443	5.6529
	Informal	1071	81.9569	4.6827
	Retired (formal)	54	78.4510	12.6877
	Retired (informal)	11	28.8794	7.7272
	Others	7	17.7322	6.4310
Dominant religion	Christian	1716	85.3959	4.0806
	Muslim	367	78.7520	6.6658
	Traditional	15	62.7918	9.6645
	Other	4	6.4682	0.7909
House type	Flat/apartment	497	150.0595	2.4592
	Semidetached	296	111.2652	6.2138
	Uncompleted building	315	82.8600	16.8051
	Compound/single room	822	81.4325	5.3214
	Tent/kiosk/containers	137	46.6797	3.8222
	Standalone	35	40.1873	9.7802