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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Environ. 2006 Sep 1;28(1):17–39. doi: 10.1007/s11111-007-0032-y

Table 3.

Farm and land use factors affecting birth outcomes by women's age in 1990

Women 15-29
Women 30-39
%
Mean no. birth %
Mean no. birth
N ≥1 N ≥1
1990 Landholdings
0-19 6 100 3.83 1 100 2.00
20-39 13 62% 1.85 14 64% 1.57
40-59 38 68% 1.84 42 57% 1.1*
60+ 5 60% 1.40 12 50% 1.17
Change in
Lost more than 5 ha 17 59% 1.65 20 55% 1.15
Lost 5 ha to gained 5 ha 28 75% 2.14 29 62% 1.34
Gained at least 5 ha 17 71% 2.12 20 55% 1.1*
Type of land tenure in
Title 26 54% 1.42 41 49% 0.95
Certificate of Possession 28 75% 2.39 25 68% 1.48
None 8 100 2.50 3 100 2.67
Pasture allocation in
0 ha 12 83% 2.75 12 75% 1.67
0-5 ha 26 85% 2.12 23 65% 1.22
>5 24 46% 1.50 34 47% 1.06
Coffee allocation in
0 ha 4 75% 2.75 4 75% 1.50
0-5 ha 44 75% 2.11 40 58% 1.175**
>5 14 50% 1.43 25 56% 1.24

t-tests based on differences between the number of births reported between the two age groups

*

Significant at the .10 level

**

significant at the .05 level, significant at the .01 level