Factors affecting adoption of upland rice in Tselemti district, northern Ethiopia

Table 4 The maximum likelihood estimation of the binary logit model

No.	Variable	B value	SE	Wald	Sig.	Odds ratio
1	Age of the household head	0.035	0.027	1.632	0.201	1.035
2	Sex of the household head	− 0.513	1.029	0.249	0.618	0.599
3	Level of education	0.814	0.333	5.980	0.014**	2.256
4	Farm size	0.166	0.602	0.076	0.783	1.181
5	Livestock holding	0.032	0.069	0.211	0.646	1.032
6	Perception on rice yield	2.468	0.750	10.822	0.001***	11.797
7	Off-farm income	1.113	0.643	2.997	0.083*	3.044
8	Access to credit	0.981	0.515	3.627	0.057*	2.666
9	Market distance	− 0.084	0.050	2.838	0.092*	0.919
10	Contact with extension agent	0.407	1.313	0.096	0.757	1.502
11	Participation on field days	1.755	0.585	8.996	0.003***	5.784
12	Participation on training	1.287	0.569	5.127	0.024**	3.624
13	Annual farm income	0.000	0.0001	1.580	0.209	1.000
14	Labor availability	0.087	0.201	0.189	0.664	1.091
15	Constant	− 8.035	2.397	11.239	0.001***	0.000
χ² value			100.541***
− 2 log likelihood			102.873
Overall model predictions			88%

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