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Table 2 Description of explanatory variables that affect households’ choice of crop management strategies.

From: Barriers to and determinants of the choice of crop management strategies to combat climate change in Dejen District, Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Explanatory variables

Description

Sex

Dummy, 1 = aMale, 0 = Female

Age

Discrete (years), a18–35, 36–55, > 55

Education

Discrete (years), acannot read and write, primary school and above)

Farming experience

Continuous (years), a10, 10–20, 21–30, > 30

Income

Continuous (ETB), a < 10,000, 10,001–30,000, 30,001–50,000, > 50,000

Family size

Discrete (number), a < 4, and > 4

Access to weather information

Dichotomous, 1 = aYes, 0 = No

Access to farmer to farmer extension services

Dichotomous, 1 = aYes, 0 = No

Access to government experts’ extension services

Dichotomous, 1 = aYes, 0 = No

Agro-ecology settings

Dummy, 1 = ahighland; 2 = midland; 3 = lowland

Farmland size

Continuous (hectare), a < 1.2, and > 1.2

Crop failure history of households

Dichotomous, 1 = aYes, 0 = No

  1. aTaken as reference (base for analysis), ETB is Ethiopian currency ($1 = 22.3ETB) [18]