Table 2.
Variable description and summary of descriptive statistics.
| No | Variable | Policy-off (Control, N = 257) |
Policy-on (Treated, N = 250) |
Pooled (N = 507) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD. | Min. | Max. | Mean | SD. | Min. | Max. | Mean | SD. | ||
| 1 | NAFCO | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - |
| 2 | TCInc | 1,028.73 | 1,152.04 | 100.00 | 10,000.00 | 2,200.26 | 2,624.01 | 200.00 | 15,000.00 | 16,06.41 | 2,098.45 |
| 3 | CInc/U | 218.29 | 337.52 | 8.33 | 3000.00 | 441.22 | 467.33 | 25.00 | 3000.00 | 328.21 | 421.37 |
| 4 | Ln(TFInc)∗ | 6.52 | 0.89 | 4.61 | 9.21 | 7.27 | 0.86 | 5.30 | 9.62 | 6.89 | 0.95 |
| 5 | Ln(FInc/U) | 4.83 | 1.01 | 2.12 | 8.01 | 5.70 | 0.87 | 3.22 | 8.01 | 5.26 | 1.04 |
| 6 | HS | 5.90 | 2.32 | 1.00 | 13.00 | 5.58 | 2.27 | 1.00 | 13.00 | 5.75 | 2.30 |
| 7 | Ln(Age) | 3.85 | 0.28 | 3.00 | 4.48 | 3.88 | 0.19 | 3.22 | 4.32 | 3.86 | 0.24 |
| 8 | Gen | 0.67 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.78 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.73 | 0.45 |
| 9 | Mar | 0.80 | 0.40 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.76 | 0.43 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 0.78 | 0.41 |
| 10 | Edu | 2.29 | 0.92 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 2.42 | 0.88 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 2.36 | 0.90 |
| 11 | Market | 3.05 | 0.74 | 1.00 | 5.00 | 2.84 | 0.71 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 2.94 | 0.73 |
| 12 | ln(Expr) | 3.23 | 0.83 | 0.00 | 4.48 | 3.33 | 0.54 | 1.10 | 4.32 | 3.28 | 0.70 |
| 13 | Ext | 3.82 | 0.55 | 2.50 | 6.08 | 4.27 | 0.28 | 3.58 | 5.42 | 4.04 | 0.49 |
| 14 | ln(Trans) | 3.81 | 0.45 | 2.75 | 4.96 | 4.01 | 0.29 | 2.79 | 4.94 | 3.91 | 0.39 |
| 15 | Ln(Pack) | 3.86 | 0.47 | 0.69 | 5.00 | 3.95 | 0.19 | 2.30 | 4.61 | 3.91 | 0.36 |
Note: The policy-on are the BSO farmers, and the policy-off are the non-BSO farmers. ∗ Ln indicates the log transformation of the TFInc and FInc/U. The application of the log transformation of the data reduced the influence of the outliers and normalized the distribution of the income variables to increase the validity of the results.