Impact of small-scale irrigation on household food security: evidence from Ethiopia

Table 1 Description of variables used in the logit model and their descriptive statistics

Variable code	Variable description	Irrigation users (n = 94)		Irrigation non-users (n = 100)		Total household (n = 194)		t-test (Chi²)
Variable code	Variable description	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t-test (Chi²)
SEXHHD	Sex of the household head (1 if household head is male, 0 otherwise)	85.11	14.89	90	10	87.63	12.37	1.07
EDULEV	Education of the household head in schooling years	4.26	2.36	3.56	2.17	3.9	2.29	2.16**
AGEHHD	Age of the household head in year	38.54	8.21	35.98	7.56	37.2	7.96	2.26**
HHFEX	Farming experience of the household head in years	15.18	7.52	12.92	7.63	14.01	7.65	2.07**
FAMSIZE	Number of people resending in the household	5.38	2.75	4.27	1.83	4.8	2.38	3.33***
DEPNDRTO	Dependency ratio in number	2.07	1.2	2.14	1.43	2.11	1.32	0.33
TOCLAND	Total land owned by respondents in hectares	2.1	0.88	1.56	0.7	1.82	0.83	4.77***
LIVSTO	Total livestock owned by respondents in Tropical Livestock Unit	6.48	4.09	4.58	2.62	5.5	3.54	3.85***
NEAWAT	Distance from water point to the farming plot in km	1.09	0.53	1.46	4.5	1.28	0.84	3.05***
DIMAR	Distance to the main market in km	6.02	2.23	6.48	2.7	6.26	2.49	1.28
ACCEXT	Access to extension service (1 if household head received training regularly during the last 1 year prior to the survey time, 0 otherwise)	78.72	21.28	49	51	63.4	36.6	18.4***
ACCRED	Access to credit (1 if household head received credit from formal lending institutions during the last 1 year prior to the survey time, 0 otherwise)	53.19	46.81	28	72	40.21	59.79	12.79***
NONFRMA	Total amount of annual non/off-farm income of the household in Ethiopian birr	1673.72	2321.85	713.7	1633.8	1178.86	2049.01	3.34***

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