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. 2021 Feb 16;7(2):e06231. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06231

Table 2.

Determinants of adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among maize farmers-Probit model.

Independnet variables Coef. St. Err. P-value Marginal effects St. Err. P-value
Age of the respondent -0.011 0.009 0.221 -0.018 0.019 0.347
Educational level 0.017 0.017 0.295 0.006 0.006 0.309
Marital status 0.189 0.153 0.217 0.078 0.058 0.180
Household size 0.070 0.042 0.096∗ 0.028 0.016 0.079∗
Dependency ratio -0.312 0.122 0.010∗∗ -0.124 0.045 0.006∗∗∗
Membership FBO 0.250 0.231 0.279 0.093 0.087 0.282
Freq of extension visits 0.069 0.038 0.071∗ 0.025 0.014 0.074∗
Access to extension -0.469 0.268 0.081∗ -0.181 0.099 0.068∗
Non-farm income -0.324 0.175 0.065∗ -0.124 0.065 0.056∗
Climate information -0.217 0.312 0.488 -0.082 0.117 0.485
Access to credit -0.063 0.245 0.797 -0.015 0.093 0.874
Constant 0.084 0.495 0.866
Mean dependent variable 0.520
Pseudo R-squared 0.050
Chi-square 20.923
Akaike criterion (AIC) 418.48
Bayesian criterion (BIC) 462.93
Number of observations 300.00
Prob > chi 2 0.034

∗∗∗p < 0.01, ∗∗p < 0.05, ∗p < 0.1.