From: Climate change scenarios in Zambia: modeling farmers’ adaptation
Sample characteristics | Unit | Obs | Mean | SD |
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Individual characteristics | ||||
Age of respondent | years | 277 | 42.6 | 14.6 |
Education of respondent | years | 277 | 6.7 | 3.0 |
Gender | %, female | 277 | 20.2 | 40.2 |
Religion | %, protestant | 277 | 74.4 | 43.7 |
Member of a community group | %, yes | 277 | 35.4 | 47.9 |
Household characteristics | ||||
Size | members | 277 | 6.0 | 2.4 |
Distance to camp | km | 277 | 4.8 | 1.6 |
Savings | ZMKa | 277 | 260.6 | 413.1 |
Months of enough food | months | 277 | 10.4 | 2.6 |
Social contacts | number | 277 | 1.7 | 0.9 |
Agricultural characteristics | ||||
Land size | hectare | 277 | 6.7 | 5.6 |
Livestock possession | TLU | 277 | 0.6 | 1.2 |
Top 3 reasons for leaving land uncultivated | ||||
Labor shortage | %, yes | 277 | 33.9 | 47.4 |
Waiting for recovery from slash and burn | %, yes | 277 | 17.3 | 37.9 |
Not enough money | %, yes | 277 | 16.3 | 37.0 |
Natural resource characteristics | ||||
Fish catch | %, yes | 277 | 30.3 | 46.0 |
Firewood collection | %, yes | 277 | 84.8 | 35.9 |
Host-refugee contact characteristics | ||||
Contact with refugees | %, yes | 277 | 93.1 | 25.3 |
Contact via joint employment | %, yes | 277 | 52.0 | 50.1 |
Contact via trade opportunities | %, yes | 277 | 49.8 | 50.1 |