Table 9.
Comparison of household demographics and farm characteristics and ability to give desirable response for practice questions.
| Description | N (374) |
Theta Mean (SE) |
|---|---|---|
| Agroecology and production system | ||
| Highland mixed crop-livestock production system | 128 | 0.84 (0.04)a |
| Lowland mixed crop-livestock production system | 126 | 0.45 (0.04)b |
| Pastoral/agro-pastoral production system | 120 | −1.15 (0.02)c |
| Sex of respondent | ||
| Male | 297 | 0.13 (0.05)a |
| Female | 77 | −0.14 (0.11)a |
| Education | ||
| Never went to school | 195 | −0.28 (0.06)a |
| Primary school | 117 | 0.28 (0.08)b |
| Secondary school/College | 62 | 0.78 (0.08)c |
| Age | ||
| Young (<30) | 84 | −0.04 (0.10)a |
| Medium (30–50) | 204 | 0.13 (0.06)a |
| Old (>50) | 86 | 0.02 (0.10)a |
| Livestock experience | ||
| < = 5 year | 30 | 0.19 (0.18)a |
| 5–20 | 184 | 0.02 (0.07)a |
| >20 year | 160 | 0.10 (0.07)a |
| Household size | ||
| Small (<4 person) | 37 | 0.46 (0.15)a |
| Medium (4–8 person) | 279 | 0.14 (0.05)a |
| Large (>8 person) | 58 | −0.55 (0.12)b |
| Species mix | ||
| 3 and less species | 72 | −0.29 (0.11)a |
| More than 3 species | 302 | 0.16 (0.05)b |
| Hired worker | ||
| Yes | 59 | 0.62 (0.06)a |
| No | 315 | −0.03 (0.05)b |
Each subscript letter denotes a subset of agro-ecological zones whose column frequency does not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level (Mann–Whitney test).