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. 2021 Feb 17;13(1):974. doi: 10.4102/jamba.v13i1.974

TABLE 3.

Marginal effects from the multinomial logit climate change adaptation model.

Explanatory variable Terracing for soil & water conservation
Fertiliser application
Income diversification
Livestock diversification
Changing planting date
Crop diversification with improved variety
No adaptation
dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e. dy/dx s.e.
Demographic
Gender −0.0159 0.0626 0.0928 0.0688 −0.0310 0.0223 0.0466 0.0470 −0.0861 0.0598 0.0356 0.0386 −0.0419 0.0348
Age 0.0145* 0.0076 −0.0007 0.0030 −0.0163** 0.0076 0.0014 0.0021 0.0130*** 0.0026 0.0067** 0.0030 −0.0051 0.0033
Family size −0.0592 0.0415 −0.0026 0.0338 −0.0157 0.0201 −0.0111 0.0183 0.0220 0.0275 −0.0046 0.0308 −0.0714** 0.0320
Human capital
Education 0.0148 0.0381 −0.0581* 0.0212 −0.0507 0.0312 0.0031 0.0184 0.0575** 0.0272 0.1671*** 0.0435 −0.0287 0.0184
Assets and income
Farm size 0.2574 0.2178 0.2061 0.1699 0.2343 0.1631 0.0647 0.1100 −0.1947 0.1327 0.3103** 0.1241 0.0304 0.1249
Livestock holding 0.12547*** 0.0302 0.0083 0.01975 0.0346*** 0.0114 0.0485** 0.0238 0.0168 0.0191 0.0041 0.0182 0.0821 0.0404
Income 8.8444 0.00002 0.00002*** 8.8222 0.00005** 0.00002 −4.5444 0.5888 0.00002*** 7.7555 0.00002*** 9.0111 −0.00001** 0000
Public access
Access to market 0.0110 0.0738 0.0441 0.0611 −0.0298 0.0449 −0.0234 0.0347 0.0103 0.0467 −0.01291** 0.0440 0.0168 0.0472
Climate information 0.1102* 0.0629 0.0181 0.0628 0.0780*** 0.0252 0.0079 0.0472 0.0804 0.0552 −0.0319 0.0479 −0.0423 0.0497
Extension access 0.1494* 0.0887 −0.0780 0.0714 0.0064 0.0753 0.029819 0.0855 0.0672 0.0797 0.1192*** 0.0462 0.0047 0.0444
Agroecological zonation
Midland 0.1185*** 0.0802 0.0760 0.0909 −0.0845** 0.0375 0.0229 0.0562 0.0142 0.0927 −0.0902*** 0.0327 0.0430 0.0330
Highland 0.3793*** 0.0777 −0.1146* 0.0588 −0.0874*** 0.0338 −0.0108 0.0407 −0.2003*** 0.0580 −0.0256 0.0560 0.0596* 0.0317

dy/dx, marginal effect; s.e., standard error.

***, **, *

, indicates significant at 1%, 5% and 10% probability level, respectively.