Table 5 Probit model on the use of sorting all bad peanuts (dependent variable is equal to one if the household sorts molded, broken and immature peanuts and zero if it sorts less than that)
From: Production, post-harvest management and gender dynamics among smallholder peanut farmers in Haiti
Sorts all bad peanuts | Marginal effects | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Coef. | Std. Err. | Coef. | Std. Err. | |
Aflatoxin knowledge | 0.21 | 0.27 | 0.04 | 0.05 |
Female household head | 0.26 | 0.24 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
Northeast | 0.14 | 0.39 | 0.02 | 0.07 |
Wife makes decisions | 0.18 | 0.40 | 0.03 | 0.08 |
Uses tarp to dry peanuts | 1.62*** | 0.34 | 0.32*** | 0.07 |
Peanut production (kgs) | − 0.17 | 0.424 | − 0.1 | 0.074 |
Saved seed from last season | 1.87*** | 0.0001 | 0.36*** | 0.05 |
Joint decisions | 0.55** | 0.27 | 0.09** | 0.04 |
Farming experience (years) | 0.004 | 0.01 | 0.0008 | 0.002 |
Remittances from abroad | 0.47* | 0.27 | 0.1 | 0.07 |
Works with an organization | − 0.17 | 0.23 | − 0.02 | 0.04 |
Peanut consumption (kg/year) | − 0.02 | 0.02 | − 0.004 | 0.004 |
Primary education | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.009 | 0.05 |
Secondary education | 0.25 | 0.31 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
College education | 0.28 | 0.58 | 0.06 | 0.14 |
Other education | 0.44 | 0.93 | 0.10 | 0.26 |
Number of adults | − 0.33 | 0.24 | − 0.06 | 0.04 |
Number of children | 0.002 | 0.05 | 0.0005 | 0.009 |
Other jobs | − 0.20 | 0.29 | − 0.04 | 0.06 |
Constant | − 2.61*** | 0.69 | ||
N | 378 | 378 | ||
LR Chi2(19) = 164.2 | ||||
Prob > Chi2 = 0.0000 | ||||
Pseudo-R2 = 0.4181 | ||||