A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 2 The socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the households
Continuous variables | Mean | Standard deviation |
|---|---|---|
Age of the household head | 45.649 | 16.506 |
Family size | 4.089 | 1.692 |
Education | 4.056 | 1.660 |
Land allocated for mango | 0.6797 | 0.351 |
Extension contact | 5.552 | 0.571 |
Mango produced in quintal | 28.1714 | 2.1690 |
Livestock holdings (TLU) | 4.1577 | 1.770 |
Distance to the nearest market | 7.539 | 2.065 |
Dummy variables | Category | Frequency | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|
Sex of the household head | Male | 372 | 95.1 |
Female | 19 | 4.9 | |
Non/and off-farm participation | Yes | 157 | 40.1 |
No | 234 | 59.9 | |
Market information | Yes | 193 | 49.4 |
No | 198 | 50.6 | |
Credit use | Yes | 155 | 39.6 |
No | 236 | 60.4 |