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Table 3 Farm and economic structure of agroforestry and non-farm income generating activity adopters and non-adopters (t test for continuous variables)

From: Agroforestry and farm income diversification: synergy or trade-off? The case of Ethiopia

Variables

Total N = 136

Agroforestry adopters and non-adopters

Non-farm income diversification activity adopters and non-adopters

Adopters N1 = 94

Non adopter N2 = 42

t tatistics

Adopters N1 = 71

Non adopters N2 = 65

t statistics

RESPOAGE

43.985 (10.12)

44.277 (10.381)

43.333 (9.624)

0.999

43.746 (9.867)

42.615 (10.86)

0.636

FSIZE

5.743 (1.558)

5.723 (1.513)

5.786 (1.675)

0.214

5.465 (1.548)

6.046 (1.525)

2.203**

DEPRATIO

0.378 (0.201)

0.378 (0.205)

0.379 (0.195)

0.043

0.359 (0.212)

0.399 (0.189)

1.192

PROPOSTUDENT

0.420 (0.213)

0.457 (0.184)

0.339 (0.251)

3.052***

0.454 (0.199)

0.383 (0.222)

1.968**

AVHOMEDISTA

61.106 (54.94)

56.297 (54.607)

71.869 (54.802)

1.534

48.654 (47.075)

74.707 (59.86)

2.833***

AVMARKETDISTA

165.232 (148.98)

149.953 (148.37)

199.429 (146.343)

1.804*

129.045 (124.6)

204.759 (163.67)

3.050***

AVROADISTA

142.332 (138.13)

125.529 (134.80)

179.941 (139.703)

2.150**

110.72 (117.76)

176.86 (150.88)

2.862***

FARMSIZE

2.037 (0.841)

2.163 (0.829)

1.757 (0.810)

2.658***

2.109 (0.739)

1.959 (0.940)

1.036

NONCROPFARM

0.044 (0.123)

0.049 (0.131)

0.030 (0.105)

0.826

0.056 (0.149)

0.03 (0.087)

1.210

NUMOX

2.595 (1.077)

2.776 (1.099)

2.190 (0.917)

3.017***

2.69 (1.022)

2.492 (1.133)

1.070

TOTLIVESTOKVAL

17553.5 (8066.05)

19338.0 (8059.7)

13559.74 (6575.58)

4.076***

18994 (7510.16)

15980.14 (8410.23)

2.207**

TOTOFFORNONFARMY

3596.06 (5260.70)

4446.38 (5733.5)

1692.95 (3345.189)

2.896***

–

–

–

LNEQUEXPER

1.683 (0.864)

–

–

–

2.002 (0.616)

1.335 (0.962)

4.853***

  1. ***, **, * shows the significance level at 1, 5, and 10%