Ecological Processes

Table 4 Marginal effects from Multinomial logit land management practices model

From: Determinants of farmers’ adoption of land management practices in Gelana sub-watershed of Northern highlands of Ethiopia

Variable	Stone bund			Chemical fertilizer
Variable	Coefficient	Standard error	Marginal effect	Coefficient	Standard error	Marginal effect
Age	-0.4559372	0.2257546	-0.0480113^b	−0.4037107	.2358476	-0.0577354^a
Education	1.67886	0.8023329	0.1653551^b	1.702512	.8062886	0.2563915^b
Family size	5.955979	2.540778	0.6342278^b	5.140588	2.486968	0.7272045^b
Slope	12.01226	5.195372	1.398967^b	8.104238	4.994441	1.007615
tenure	9.056054	3.980339	0.3856156^b	9.054743	3.875805	0.5820099^b
training	11.76948	5.303237	0.2844511^b	13.39839	5.614912	0.6888264^b
Farm credit	7.353151	4.980221	-0.0428227	13.79203	5.264193	0.980661^c
Extension service	8.615629	4.020413	0.2988511^b	9.54752	4.066243	0.6747259^b

Base category = No land management practices
Log likelihood = −29.262667 Number of observation = 176
LR chi2(16) = 319.10; Prob > chi² = 0.0000; Pseudo R ² = 0.8450
^a, ^b, ^c = significant at 10%, 5% and 1% probability level respectively

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