Research Article
Socioeconomic Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Western Ethiopia
Table 9
Coding of categorical independent variables.
| Independent variables | Frequency | Parameter coding | (1) | (2) | (3) |
| Educational status | Illiterate | 93 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | High school | 79 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | Some colleges | 28 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 0.000 | Undergraduate | 21 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 |
| Gender | Male | 189 | 0.000 | | | Female | 32 | 1.000 | | |
| Land-holding size | No land | 127 | 1.000 | | | Own land | 94 | 0.000 | | |
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Source: analysis via SPSS version 20 (2023).
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