Perception and adaptation models of climate change by the rural people of lake Tana Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

Environmental Systems Research

Table 4 Correlation matrix of the independent variables Multicollinearity

Variable	Age	Sex	Agro-ecology	Education	Marital status	HH size	Wealth status
Age	1.0000
Sex	0.0024	1.0000
Agro-ecology	−0.1737	0.0413	1.0000
Education	−0.0715	−0.0227	0.0245	1.0000
Marital status	−0.0484	−0.4693	−0.1102	0.0148	1.0000
HH size	−0.0823	−0.1396	−0.1290	0.0458	0.1964	1.0000
Wealth status	0.0721	−0.0622	−0.5369	0.0176	0.1401	0.0874	1.0000

Variable	Extension	Off-farm	Info.	Women	Dist. w	Dis.to H	Income	Farm size
Farm size	−0.1204	−0.0722	−0.1641	−0.1011	0.1916	0.1700	0.3107	1.0000
Extension	0.0343	0.0367	−0.0629	−0.0131	0.0156	−0.0022	0.0631	0.0578
Off-farm	−0.0140	0.0825	−0.0097	0.0676	−0.0375	0.0087	0.0734	−0.0376
Information	−0.0132	0.0496	0.0367	−0.0322	0.0345	−0.0432	−0.0009	−0.0818
Woman’s role	0.0008	−0.0715	−0.0356	−0.0238	0.0572	0.0508	0.0076	0.0040
Distance W^b	−0.0743	0.1015	0.0072	−0.0217	−0.0870	−0.0199	−0.0406	−0.0006
Distance HC^a	−0.0802	0.0196	0.1411	0.0309	−0.0401	0.0487	−0.1739	−0.0017
Income	−0.0761	0.0095	0.1030	0.0394	0.0408	−0.0062	−0.1313	0.0579
Farm size
Extension	1.0000
Off-farm	0.0176	1.0000
Information	−0.0224	−0.0281	1.0000
Woman’s role	−0.0269	−0.0386	0.0528	1.0000
Distance w^a	0.0920	−0.0381	−0.0309	−0.0288	1.0000
Distance HC	0.0347	−0.0155	−0.0049	0.0522	0.0518	1.0000
Income	0.0052	−0.0027	0.0239	−0.0055	−0.0203	−0.0932	1.0000