Table 1.
Descriptive statistics. By wave (Baseline=1996, Follow-up=2008 for individual measures and 2006 for household/agricultural measures ). N=2276 individuals (1254 women and 1022 men) from Chitwan Valley, Nepal.
| Variable description | Baseline | Follow-up | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIN | MAX | MEAN | STD | MIN | MAX | MEAN | STD | |
| Coombs scale value | 1 | 25 | 5.96 | 2.02 | 1 | 25 | 5.71 | 1.84 |
| Natural resource collection variables | ||||||||
| Hours to collect fodder | 0 | 10 | 1.52 | 1.36 | 0 | 8 | 1.29 | 1.27 |
| Intensity of fodder collection | ||||||||
| Gathers no fodder/has no livestock | 15.51 | 20.43 | ||||||
| Gathers no fodder/buys all | 1.80 | 3.03 | ||||||
| Gathers less than half of fodder | 9.23 | 6.81 | ||||||
| Gathers half of fodder | 22.45 | 19.82 | ||||||
| Gathers more than half of fodder | 11.69 | 11.56 | ||||||
| Gathers all fodder | 39.32 | 38.36 | ||||||
| Hours to collect firewood | 0 | 17 | 4.57 | 3.97 | 0 | 14 | 2.19 | 3.06 |
| Intensity of firewood collection | ||||||||
| Gathers no firewood/does not use firewood | 5.89 | 7.07 | ||||||
| Gathers no firewood/buys all | 13.75 | 26.85 | ||||||
| Gathers less than half of firewood | 6.59 | 3.21 | ||||||
| Gathers half of firewood | 18.54 | 14.67 | ||||||
| Gathers more than half of firewood | 7.73 | 4.88 | ||||||
| Gathers all firewood | 47.50 | 43.32 | ||||||
| Number of livestock household owns (bulls, cows, he buffaloes, she buffaloes, goats, pigs) | 0 | 15 | 4.54 | 3.64 | 0 | 15 | 3.80 | 3.31 |
| Flora plot measures | ||||||||
| Closest flora plot | ||||||||
| Density (number of plants) | 3.86 | 1401.67 | 496.61 | 252.44 | 12.74 | 1463.33 | 430.77 | 318.30 |
| Richness (number of species) | 1 | 24 | 12.64 | 5.59 | 1 | 32 | 15.96 | 6.67 |
| Shannon-Weiner Diversity Index | 0 | 2.424 | 1.46 | 0.69 | 0 | 2.777 | 1.55 | 0.78 |
| Geoweighted averages of all flora plots | ||||||||
| Density (number of plants) | 1.83 | 409.67 | 14.60 | 37.56 | 1.30 | 272.84 | 10.10 | 25.90 |
| Richness (number of species) | 0.06 | 14.46 | 0.46 | 1.28 | 0.06 | 18.47 | 0.59 | 1.66 |
| Shannon-Weiner Diversity Index | 0.01 | 1.62 | 0.05 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 1.82 | 0.06 | 0.16 |
| Controls | ||||||||
| Community characteristics | ||||||||
| Distance (min by foot) to nearest market | 0 | 120 | 12.51 | 16.60 | 0 | 4 | 0.14 | 0.44 |
| Distance (min by foot) to nearest school | 0 | 30 | 9.21 | 6.64 | 0 | 25 | 6.95 | 6.53 |
| Distance (min by foot) to nearest health post | 0 | 90 | 20.65 | 17.88 | 0 | 30 | 8.47 | 5.93 |
| Distance (min by foot) to nearest employer | 0 | 180 | 21.00 | 20.82 | 0 | 30 | 5.70 | 6.31 |
| Number of consumer durables hh owns | 0 | 8 | 1.82 | 1.40 | 0 | 8 | 2.87 | 1.46 |
| Household owns any land | 0 | 1 | 0.84 | 0 | 1 | 0.76 | ||
| Education (highest grade respondent completed) | 0 | 16 | 5.71 | 4.11 | 0 | 16 | 6.31 | 4.63 |
| Married | 0 | 1 | 0.61 | 0 | 1 | 0.94 | ||
| Total number of children born | 0 | 7 | 1.30 | 1.55 | 0 | 11 | 2.39 | 1.48 |