Table 9.
Summary statistics of variables used in the regression analysis, Nigeria, South, North.
| Variables | Nigeria |
South |
North |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2012 | 2010 | 2012 | 2010 | 2012 | |
| Household head is Male (0/1) | 88 | 87 | 76 | 74 | 96 | 96 |
| Age of the household head (years) | 51 | 52 | 56 | 57 | 47 | 49 |
| Household dependency ratio | 1.1 | 1 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Household head has formal education (0/1) | 60 | 60 | 71 | 70 | 52 | 53 |
| Household resides in an urban area (0/1) | 13 | 12 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 8 |
| Land holding size (hectares) | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Agricultural assets index | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
| A household member is engaged in Non-Farm self-employment (0/1) | 56 | 60 | 51 | 57 | 60 | 62 |
| A household member is engaged in off Farm wage employment (0/1) | 23 | 18 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 15 |
| Household received any loan (0/1) | 39 | 40 | 36 | 42 | 42 | 39 |
| Household received loan from formal source (0/1) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Household received loan from informal source (0/1) | 18 | 19 | 18 | 24 | 18 | 16 |
| Household received loan from friends or relatives (0/1) | 28 | 29 | 22 | 26 | 33 | 30 |
| Value of sales per ha of land cultivated (in 000 Naira) | 43 | 43 | 65 | 69 | 30 | 30 |
| Use fertilizer (0/1) | 45 | 45 | 25 | 21 | 59 | 61 |
| Purchase Fertilizer (0/1) | 41 | 42 | 23 | 20 | 55 | 56 |
| Fertilizer price (in Naira per kg) | 85 | 103 | 93 | 106 | 80 | 100 |
| Distance to Nearest Market (km) | 71 | 70 | 66 | 66 | 75 | 73 |
| Coefficient of variation of rainfall | 94 | 95 | 68 | 68 | 111 | 112 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to grains crops | 43 | 44 | 15 | 16 | 59 | 59 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to legumes crops | 16 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to tubers crops | 28 | 25 | 58 | 53 | 10 | 10 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to oil crops | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to horticulture crops | 7 | 8 | 15 | 18 | 3 | 3 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to cotton | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to tobacco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to tea/coffee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Share of land cultivated allocated to other crops | 3 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Geographic zones | ||||||
| North central | 17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 27 |
| North east | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 34 |
| North west | 22 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 40 |
| South east | 20 | 19 | 49 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
| South south | 13 | 13 | 31 | 32 | 0 | 0 |
| South west | 9 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
Note: Means of binary variables are expressed in percentage.
Source: Generated by authors using LSMS data.