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Table 5 Results of multivariate probit model for determinants of adaptation choices

From: Determinants of adaptation choices to climate change by sheep and goat farmers in Northern Ethiopia: the case of Southern and Central Tigray, Ethiopia

Independent variables	Dependent variables
	Home feeding		Crossbred		Marketing		Shade
	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value
Sex	−0.8021*	0.097	−0.2438	0.450	−0.1195	0.848	−0.0901	0.772
Age	0.0160	0.280	−0.0142	0.159	0.0318	0.325	−0.0209*	0.053
Marital status	0.8064*	0.068	0.5333*	0.076	0.2756	0.640	0.2647	0.368
Family size	0.0020	0.978	0.0509	0.356	−0.0554	0.681	0.1084*	0.052
Land size	0.4527	0.283	0.0140	0.944	0.1522	0.849	−0.1722	0.492
Herd size	0.0008	0.979	0.0439	0.100*	0.0459	0.514	0.0067	0.780
Access to info.	1.7645**	0.013	1.7009**	0.027	3.1643***	0.000	0.9316	0.184
Year of production	−0.0267	0.158	0.0310**	0.014	0.0048	0.887	0.0323***	0.009
No. households in one village	0.0006	0.340	−0.0015***	0.001	0.0007	0.428	−0.0010**	0.031
Credit access	−0.4864	0.418	−0.4548	0.211	−3.6721	0.988	−0.0986	0.792
Distance to mkt	−0.0398***	0.007	0.0020	0.879	0.0180	0.739	0.0116	0.373
Highland	−1.1812**	0.017	1.7441***	0.000	0.6275	0.380	0.6206**	0.043
Lowland	−1.4700***	0.000	0.0101	0.962	0.6501	0.270	−0.7218***	0.001
Monthly consumption	−0.4818**	0.023	−0.4502***	0.001	−0.2690	0.381	0.0518	0.712
Edu2	0.2731	0.455	−0.0194	0.940	0.1190	0.823	0.0128	0.959
Edu3	0.0127	0.966	−0.0184	0.932	0.0724	0.881	0.0262	0.901
Edu4	−0.3680	0.470	−0.3914	0.355	0.7316	0.562	−0.0210	0.962
Edu5	4.2013	0.993	5.0015	0.989	3.1296	0.996	5.2491	0.987

*, ** and *** are at 10, 5 and 1 % level significant respectively

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