Research Article

Rural Households’ Demand Status for Mitigation of Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC Invasion and Its Determinant Factors in Ethiopia: Empirical Evidence from Afar National Regional State

Table 2

Descriptive statistics for continuous independent variables.

VariablesWilling (n = 293)Nonwilling (n = 20)t value
MeanStd. devMeanStd. dev

Age of the HH44.4110.6958.207.005.68
Education level of the HH0.321.332.153.415.13
Annual farm income29016.8820422.754359519037.343.10
Non/off-farm income4754.958506.5924057.509349.819.76
Freq. of extension contact5.234.690.651.18−4.35
Distance from the market101.57121.5873.6529.27−1.02
Farming experience22.1213.1923.6010.020.49
Years lived in the area36.6512.3238.3012.840.58
Size of own land0.740.840.180.37−2.99
Family size in AE4.341.552.721.03−4.59
Dependency ratio1.291.041.091.01−0.85
Livestock holding (TLU)22.5222.309.727.06−2.56
Initial bid (Bid1)9.305.7014.204.303.77

and show significant variables at 1% and 5% probability levels, respectively. Source: own survey results, 2021.