Perception of climate change and its impact by smallholders in pastoral/agropastoral systems of Borana, South Ethiopia

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Table 3 Description of variables used to create a logistic regression model for climate change perception of pastoralist/agropastoralists in the Borana lowlands, Ethiopia

(a) Outcome variable	Description	Respondents who perceived % (score values)	Respondents who did not perceive % (score values)
Level of climate change and its impact on agriculture perceived over the past 20 years	Takes the scores from 0 (no perception) to 4 (Noticeable and completely changing the way we farm)	96 (1–4)	4 (0)
(b) Explanatory variables		Mean	SD
Age	Age of the HH head in years; categorical, 1 if young adult, 2 if adult, 3 if old	49.8	15.3
Education	School attendance; categorical, 1 if no formal education, 2 if primary, and 3 if secondary	1.1	2.6
Household size	Family size of the household in heads; continuous	7.4	2.8
Production system	Production system dummy; 0 if agropastoral and 1 if pastoral	0.5	0.5
Livestock holding	Herd size of the HH in TLU^a; continuous	8.1	9.6
Farm income	Annual farm income in USD; continuous	461.9	364.1
Non-farm income	Annual non-farm income in USD; continuous	219.7	375.6
Access to climate information	Access to climate information dummy; 1 if yes otherwise 0	0.7	0.5
Access to extension service	Access to extension service dummy; 1 if yes otherwise 0	0.8	0.4