Table 3.

Factors influencing cocoa-based farming households’ participation and level of participation in social capital groups.

Variables		Decision to participate			Level of participation
		Coefficient	t-stat	Marginal effect	Coefficient	t-stat
Asset		-0.310∗∗∗	-2.88	-0.109∗∗∗	0.217	0.90
Age		5.137∗∗∗	2.76	0.548∗∗∗	3.164∗∗∗	2.73
Years of education		0.195∗∗∗	2.94	0.077∗∗∗	0.662∗∗∗	3.41
Membership in agricultural organisation		0.263	0.97	0.197	2.085∗∗∗	3.47
Farming experience		8.320	0.14	0.274	7.801	0.81
Off farm income		0.003	0.40	0.001	-0.041∗∗∗	-3.48
Gender		0.526∗∗∗	2.67	0.170∗∗∗	0.772	1.24
Farm size		2.247∗∗∗	2.60	0.280∗∗∗	0.408	0.25
Household size		3.930	1.08	0.403	5.528	1.02
Land tenure		1.309∗∗∗	5.79	0.301∗∗∗	1.858∗∗∗	4.71
Interest rate		-1.375∗∗∗	-6.50	-0.466∗∗∗	-1.225∗∗∗	-6.09
Distance to credit source		0.191	0.20	0.102	-0.010∗∗∗	-2.83
Extension visits		0.140∗∗	2.15	0.054∗∗	0.768∗∗	2.14
Primary occupation		0.072	0.14	0.058	0.063	0.79
Meeting attendance					-0.986	-0.61
Decision making					1.424∗∗∗	3.45
Cash contribution					9.923∗∗∗	8.90
Labour contribution					3.353∗∗∗	3.80
Heterogeneity					5.605	1.29
Membership density					0.377	0.70
Constant		2.775∗∗∗	2.64		4.784∗∗∗	2.75
Mills:	lambda	-0.012∗∗∗	-2.98
	rho	-0.772
	Sigma	0.703
Number of obs			300
Censored obs			159
Uncensored obs			141
Wald Chi2 (10)			37.2
Prob > Chi2			0.001

∗∗∗,∗∗ and ∗ represent significance levels at 1%, 5% and 10%, respectively.

Source: Field Survey, 2018