Table 5.
Access to services (Dummy variables).
| S/N | Characters | Zones (Frequency/Percent) |
Average (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bench-Sheko | Kaffa | West-Omo | Shaka | ||||
| 3 | Income source: | Agriculture | 115 (93.5) | 117 (95.1) | 120 (98.3) | 118 (95.9) | 95.7 |
| Trade | 5 (4.1) | 2 (1.6) | 2 (1.7) | 3 (2.4) | 2.45 | ||
| Gov't worker | 3 (2.4) | 4 (3.3) | 0 (0) | 3 (2.5) | 2.03 | ||
| 4 | Extension service access | Yes | 40 (32.6) | 38 (30.8) | 24 (19.7) | 34 (27.7) | 27.7 |
| No | 83 (67.4) | 85 (69.1) | 98 (80.3) | 89 (72.3) | 72.3 | ||
| 5 | Credit access | Yes | 25 (20.4) | 34 (27.7) | 13 (9.7) | 31 (25.2) | 20.75 |
| No | 98 (79.6) | 89 (72.3) | 109 (89.3) | 92 (74.8) | 79.25 | ||
| 6 | Cooperative membership | Yes | 22 (17.9) | 58 (47.1) | 2 (1.7) | 47 (38.2) | 69.85 |
| No | 101 (82.1) | 65 (52.9) | 120 (98.3) | 76 (67.8) | 30.15 | ||
Source: Authors survey, 2020