Agriculture & Food Security

Table 14 Matching summary

From: Impact of large-scale agricultural investments on the food security status of local community in Gambella region, Ethiopia

Number of strata: 111
No. of matched strata: 45

	0	1
All	185	157
Matched	144	119
Unmatched	41	38
Multivariate L1 distance: 0.20343137

Variable	Univariate imbalance
Variable	L1	Mean	Min.	25%	50%	75%	Max.
hhhead_sex	5.6e−17	4.4e−16	0	0	0	0	0
Marital_HHH	6.2e−17	8.9e−16	0	0	0	0	0
edu_hh	0.01366	0.01366	0	0	0	0	0
HHH_OCC	0.0028	− 0.0028	0	0	0	0	0
Age_headC	2.3e−16	8.9e−16	0	0	0	0	0
Family_sizeC	1.4e−16	1.1e−15	0	0	0	0	0
acess_credit	1.7e−16	2.2e−16	0	0	0	0	0
radio_infosource	0.05098	− 0.05098	0	0	0	0	0

Source: own survey, 2018
Table 14 shows that all variables are balanced in the mean value (the values are almost zero) as well as in the quantiles of all distributions (zero values). These balances in both mean values and quantiles of the distribution between treated and comparison groups can enable us to generate valid and robust results

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