Table 7 Odds ratio estimates, lower and upper confidence interval of ranking BSC, CC and MY trait least in Nguni breeding cows
From: Preferential traits for breeding Nguni cattle in low-input in-situ conservation production systems
Predictor | Body size and conformation | Coat colour | Milk yield | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(BSC) – Rank 4 | (CC) – Rank 5 | (MY) – Rank 6 | |||||||
Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | Odds ratio | Lower CI | Upper CI | |
Enterprise ownership pattern | 1.2548 | 0.1571 | 10.0223 | 2.0226 | 0.2619 | 15.6211 | 0.6661 | 0.1613 | 2.7500 |
(communalvs small-scale) | |||||||||
Gender | 5.6305 | 0.5660 | 56.0164 | 2.3289 | 0.2219 | 24.4465 | 0.5287 | 0.0901 | 3.1017 |
(male vs female) | |||||||||
Age | 0.1578 | 0.0375 | 0.6637 | 0.1341 | 0.0259 | 0.6954 | 0.5213 | 0.1593 | 1.7056 |
(young < 50 vs old ≥50 years) | |||||||||
Education level | 0.4248 | 0.0724 | 2.4930 | 0.3048 | 0.0430 | 2.1593 | 0.4686 | 0.1207 | 1.8197 |
(primary vs secondary) | |||||||||
Agriculture training | 0.4475 | 0.0208 | 9.6406 | 3.4733 | 0.1199 | 100.6032 | 0.0983 | 0.0060 | 1.5985 |
(formal vs informal) | |||||||||