Household characteristics | Gulu | Kabale | Kasese | Masindi | Soroti | Wakiso | p-value (N/A = not applicable) |
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Female respondents (%) | 53.1 | 62.5 | 59.4 | 75.0 | 37.5 | 78.1 | N/A |
Female headed households (%) | 28.1 | 28.1 | 21.9 | 28.1 | 15.6 | 43.8 | N/A |
No formal education (%) | 28.1 | 25.0 | 18.8 | 9.4 | 6.3 | 20.0 | N/A |
≤7 years of formal education (%) | 40.6 | 65.6 | 56.3 | 46.9 | 71.9 | 60.0 | N/A |
>7 years of formal education (%) | 31.3 | 9.4 | 25.0 | 43.8 | 21.9 | 20.0 | N/A |
Mean elevation (m a.s.l.) | 1091cd | 2090a | 1006e | 1124c | 1079d | 1191b | <0.0001 |
Mean age of respondent (years) | 43.7 ± 2.6a | 40.0 ± 2.0a | 41.2 ± 2.4a | 44.9 ± 2.4a | 44.1 ± 2.0a | 45.8 ± 2.4a | 0.7024 |
Mean household size (persons) | 10.2 ± 1.3a | 5.9 ± 0.5c | 6.6 ± 0.5bc | 6.5 ± 0.6c | 8.6 ± 0.7ab | 7.5 ± 0.8bc | 0.0002 |
Mean rotation duration (months) | 20.4 ± 2.2ab | 11.0 ± 1.7c | 6.6 ± 0.8c | 17.2 ± 1.4b | 23.3 ± 2.1a | 9.1 ± 1.1c | <0.0001 |
Mean years of growing sweetpotato | 25.1 ± 2.7ab | 19.6 ± 1.9abc | 16.8 ± 2.0c | 26.3 ± 2.3a | 23.8 ± 1.9ab | 19.7 ± 2.4bc | 0.0179 |
Mean sweetpotato acreage in 2011 (ha) | 0.3 ± 0.1ab | 0.2 ± 0.0b | 0.2 ± 0.0b | 0.2 ± 0.0b | 0.3 ± 0.0ab | 0.4 ± 0.1a | 0.1393 |
Arable land devoted to sweetpotato (%) | 12.3 ± 3.1b | 30.5 ± 5.0a | 17.9 ± 3.8b | 14.1 ± 2.0b | 20.0 ± 3.5b | 31.1 ± 5.1a | <0.0001 |
Mean total land holding (ha) | 100.2 ± 82.3a | 2.9 ± 1.7a | 2.4 ± 0.5a | 6.6 ± 2.8a | 2.4 ± 0.3a | 1.3 ± 0.2a | 0.2625 |
Total land cropped (%) | 59.5 ± 6.3c | 85.8 ± 5.6ab | 85.4 ± 3.9ab | 63.6 ± 5.9c | 77.8 ± 5.6b | 93.9 ± 3.0a | <0.0001 |