Table 3 Result of multinomial logistic regression model
From: Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies in Eastern Tigray Region of Ethiopia
Household livelihood diversification strategies adopted by the household | |||||||||
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Independent variables | On-farm + off-farm | On-farm + non-farm | On-farm + off-farm + non-farm | ||||||
Coefficient | SE | OR | Coefficient | SE | OR | Coefficient | SE | OR | |
Intercept | 5.601* | 3.139 | 3.185 | 6.440* | 2.513 | 6.568 | 5.327* | 3.112 | 2.929 |
SEX | .433 | .545 | .631 | .085 | .441 | .037 | .919 | .571 | 2.593 |
AGE | − .009 | .018 | .242 | − .034** | .014 | 5.750 | − .002 | .020 | .014 |
EDUCATION | .735* | .391 | 3.536 | .463*** | .300 | 2.373 | .233*** | .392 | .354 |
FAMILYSIZE | − .203* | .115 | 3.108 | − .042** | .082 | .266 | .050 | .117 | .179 |
INCOME | .000*** | .000 | 23.915 | .000*** | .000 | 24.367 | .000*** | .000 | 23.269 |
DEPENDANT | − .332** | .162 | 4.185 | − .078 | .124 | .399 | − .011 | .170 | .004 |
LANDSIZE | − .362 | .298 | 1.471 | .556*** | .209 | 7.056 | .044 | .279 | .025 |
IRRIGATION | − .980* | .568 | 2.980 | .444 | .488 | .825 | .466 | .616 | .571 |
INPUTUSE | 1.077 | .838 | 1.653 | 1.347* | .730 | 3.406 | .893 | .952 | .879 |
EXTENSION | − .550*** | .161 | 11.660 | − .187 | .131 | 2.044 | − .399** | .174 | 5.263 |
COOPMEM | .364 | .440 | .685 | .903*** | .330 | 7.506 | 1.099** | .453 | 5.898 |
REMITANCE | .230 | .592 | .152 | .900** | .428 | 4.431 | − 1.902 | .510 | 13.929 |
CREDIT | − .396 | .514 | .593 | .581 | .417 | 1.946 | 1.222*** | .520 | 5.519 |
DISTANCE | − .094* | .054 | 3.042 | − .050 | .037 | 1.805 | − .009** | .041 | .046 |
LIVESTK | − .055** | .026 | 4.371 | .014 | .019 | .531 | − .053* | .028 | 3.564 |
WEALTH | .237 | .275 | .738 | .181 | .217 | .696 | .738*** | .287 | 6.595 |
The reference category is: on-farm alone | |||||||||
Maximum likelihood estimates | |||||||||
Dependent variable | Livelihood diversification strategies | ||||||||
Number of observation | 485 | ||||||||
− 2 Log likelihood model fitting | Intercept only: 1075.644, Final: 798.242 | ||||||||
Chi-square test | 277.403 | ||||||||
Degrees of freedom | 54 | ||||||||
Significance | 0.000 | ||||||||