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Table 1 Sample characteristics of the study area (based on [38])

From: Climate change scenarios in Zambia: modeling farmers’ adaptation

Sample characteristics

Unit

Obs

Mean

SD

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

  1. Obs observation, SD standard deviation, TLU tropical livestock unit
  2. a1 US$ = 10 Zambian Kwacha (ZMK) (March 2018)