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Table 3 Descriptive summary of variables

From: The gendered nature of household decision making and expenditure choices in the context of smallholder agricultural commercialization in Malawi

 

All households (2018)

Test of mean difference by sex of household head

Variable

Mean

SD

P-value

 

CCI

0.57

0.36

*

 

Age of household head

42.5

17.3

  

Adult equivalents

4.01

2.12

**

 

Man headed household (0/1)

0.84

0.37

–

 

Men adults only (0/1)

0.10

0.30

–

 

Women adults only (0/1)

0.11

0.31

***

 

Man head control income (0/1)

0.66

0.48

***

 

Woman head control income (0/1)

0.17

0.38

***

 

Man head is plot-manager (0/1)

0.67

0.47

***

 

Woman head is plot-manager (0/1)

0.15

0.36

***

 

Log value of durable assets

3.41

1.70

–

 

Adequate food past month (0/1)

0.38

0.49

*

 

Total livestock units

0.58

1.37

**

 

Land size (ha)

1.48

2.59

***

 

Land productivity

10.6

3.50

–

 

Hired labor (0/1)

0.30

0.46

**

 

Purchased fertilizer (0/1)

0.56

0.50

–

 

Number of crops cultivated

2.80

1.57

**

 

Mchinji district (0/1)

0.48

0.50

–

 

Number of observations

560

 
  1. * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01