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. 2023 Jul 25;9(8):e18667. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18667

Table 5.

Drivers of adoption via multivariate probit model.

Variables Improved livestock management practices
Artificial insemination
Concentrate feed
Vaccination
Deworming
Coefficients SE Coefficients SE Coefficients SE Coefficients SE
Age (Years) 0.006*** 0.002 0.004 0.002 −0.004 0.003 0.001 0.002
Education (Years) 0.019*** 0.005 0.008 0.005 0.003 0.006 0.001 0.005
Gender (dummy) 0.176* 0.100 −0.008 0.096 −0.077 0.113 0.136 0.097
Spouse education (Years) −0.005 0.003 0.004 0.003 −0.004 0.004 0.004 0.003
Working member (Number) −0.039** 0.016 0.027* 0.016 −0.038** 0.018 0.050*** 0.017
Mobile phone (dummy) −0.010 0.093 0.414*** 0.094 0.098 0.109 0.174* 0.091
Television (dummy) 0.141** 0.057 0.121** 0.056 0.024 0.065 0.065 0.059
Annual income (USD) 0.001*** 0.000 0.002*** 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Electricity (dummy) 0.413*** 0.084 0.058 0.078 0.096 0.092 0.087 0.079
Crop farm size (ha.) −0.042 0.057 −0.100* 0.055 −0.030 0.064 −0.008 0.059
Extension contacts (dummy) 0.312*** 0.078 0.025 0.077 0.813*** 0.078 0.591*** 0.088
No. Of livestock (Number) 0.064*** 0.012 0.021* 0.012 0.073*** 0.013 0.077*** 0.013
Livestock raised for marketing (dummy) 0.712*** 0.195 −0.161 0.190 0.156 0.259 0.838*** 0.197
Livestock raised for marketing and consumption (dummy) 0.044 0.186 −0.055 0.184 0.335 0.251 0.932*** 0.191
Distance from market (Kms.) 0.000 0.002 0.000 0.001 0.002 0.001 −0.001 0.002
Constant −0.906*** 0.258 −0.964*** 0.253 −1.613*** 0.318 −1.438*** 0.261
Log likelihood −5343
Wald chi-square 546***
Loglikelihood test 181***
No. Of observations 2317