The Impact of Rural Livelihood Diversification on Household Poverty: Evidence from Jimma Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Southwest Ethiopia
Table 3
Robust standard error of logit model before impact estimation.
Variables
Coefficient (β)
Robust std. err
z
> z
Sex
0.2398855
0.244918
0.98
0.327
Age
0.0022859
0.0090128
0.25
0.800
Family size
0.3254973
0.0617953
5.27
0.001
Dependency ration
−0.0991398
0.1533176
−0.65
0.518
Education
0.097415
0.0464259
2.10
0.036
Credit
0.9661014
0.255318
3.78
0.001
Land size
−0.1440323
0.0827905
−1.74
0.082
Extension contact
0.1218438
0.1048981
1.16
0.245
Market distance
0.0012969
0.0031306
0.41
0.679
Livestock ownership
−0.1426449
0.0672762
−2.12
0.034
Off-farm income
0.000307
0.0001652
1.86
0.063
Non-farm income
0.0000661
0.0000456
1.45
0.147
Cons
−2.48189
0.8581793
−2.89
0.004
Number of obs = 385, Wald chi2 (12) = 63.20, pseudo-R2 = 0.1528, Prob > chi2 = 0.001, and log pseudo-likelihood = −218.07066. ∗∗∗, ∗∗, and ∗ represent significant at the 1%, 5%, and 10% probability levels, respectively. Computed own survey data (2019).
