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Table 5 Marginal effects of farmer’s characteristics on their perceptions of and adaptation to climate change through correlation coefficients (as determined by the logit model)

From: Exploring the climate change concerns of striped catfish producers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

 

Observed climate change

Concern about climate change

Impact of climate change expected on:

Preferred adaptation

Parameters

Flood

Drought

Temperature

Salinity intrusion

Change farming practice

Change species

Abandon aquaculture

 

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Coeff.

Age of farmer

0.010**

0.007*

−0.006

0.002

0.001

−0.002

−0.005

−0.001

0.001

Total ponds area

0.056

0.080

0.041

−0.060

0.006

−0.016

−0.068

0.030

0.035

Education level

0.075

0.077*

0.064

−0.048

−0.021

−0.046

0.063

0.000

0.019

Ownership

0.063

0.015

−0.034

−0.012

0.025

0.127**

0.143*

0.056

0.060

Income from aquaculture

0.003*

0.003

−0.002

−0.001

0.001

−0.003***

−0.001

0.000

0.000

Aquaculture experience

0.001

0.006

0.005

0.005

0.030*

−0.011

0.004

0.004

−0.006

  1. Note: ***significant at 0.1%, **significant at 1%, *significant at 5%