Table 4.
Descriptive statistics test for continuous independent variables.
| Continuous variables | Participants |
Non-participants |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | t-test | P-value | |
| Household size | 6.184 (2.321) | 6.245 (2.433) | 0.7508 | 0.3177 |
| Education level | 4.090 (3.709) | 1.583 (2.948) | 8.830 ∗∗∗ | 0.00 |
| Years of experience | 17.372 (8.528) | 15.25 (8.227) | 0.423 | 0.672 |
| Land under enset | 0.293 (0.201) | 0.245 (0.158) | 3.087∗∗∗ | 0.002 |
| Livestock ownership | 3.978 (1.909) | 4.185 (2.001) | -1.304 | 0.192 |
| Marketed surplus | 160.056 (109.965) | 103.723 (57.497) | 17.383∗∗∗ | 0.00 |
| Off/non-farm income (log) | 4.011 (2.057) | 3.856 (1.611) | 0.470 | 0.6383 |
| Quantity produced Market distance |
362.699 (205.962) 8.937 (6.355) |
202.995 (161.861) 8.304 (5.826) |
10.158∗∗∗ 1.248 |
0.000 0.212 |
Source: own survey (2019/20), ∗, ∗∗ and ∗∗∗ indicates 10%, 5% and 1% of significance probability level.