Determinants of market outlet choices by smallholder mango farmers in Aleta Chuko District, Sidama Region, Ethiopia: a multivariate probit approach

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Table 5 Multivariate probit estimation for determinants of mango producer outlet choice

	Market outlet choice
Variables	Consumer		Collector		Retailer		Wholesaler
	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
Sex	0.1047	0.3220	− 0.5953*	0.3206	0.9424***	0.2981	0.2702***	0.3756
Age	− 0.049***	0.0041	− 0.0061	0.0043	− 0.0022	0.0040	0.0080	0.0044
Family size	0.0001	0.0403	0.0098	0.0438	0.0478	0.0396	0.0303	0.0439
Education	0.0089	0.0193	0.0090	0.0206	0.280**	0.0183	0.0491***	0.0208
Off-farm participation	0.1462	0.0835	0.0517	0.0625	0.0047	0.0646	0.0540	0.0754
Land size allocated for mango	0.0717***	0.00432	− 0.7645***	0.2034	0.2988**	0.1367	0.5600***	0.1806
Extension contact	0.006	0.0209	0.0365	0.0249	0.0060	0.0203	0.0308	0.0245
Mango produced in quintal	0.8241**	0.068	0.9871**	0.081	0.0213***	0.0067	0.0042	0.0078
Market information	0.9276	0.1575	0.1228	0.1679	0.1834**	0.1554	0.3678**	0.1788
Credit use	0.2575*	0.1414	0.1562	0.1519	0.0720	0.1363	0.1905	0.1515
Livestock holdings (TLU)	0.0032	0.0395	0.191**	0.0421	0.06245	0.0385	0.0770*	0.0425
Distance to the nearest market	− 0.0060**	0.0134	0.519***	0.0155	− 0.5496***	0.0131	− 0.3195**	0.0155
_cons	1.0446	0.5553	0.3167	0.5798	− 0.3584	0.5296	0.3626	0.5946

*** ** and * are statistically significant at 1% 5% and 10% significance level, respectively