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Table 4 Factors influencing household’s collection and utilization of non-timber forest products

From: Non-timber forest products and their contribution to households income around Falgore Game Reserve in Kano, Nigeria

Household attributes

Coefficient

Standard error

z

Marginal effects of

NTFPs collection

and utilization

Constant

3.3124

0.755

4.39***

 

Age

−0.0984

0.0146

−6.73***

−0.1494

Sex

1.8195

0.4406

4.13***

0.3724

Household size

0.0899

0.0355

2.53***

0.0137

Occupation

0.2604

0.0861

3.02***

0.0396

Educational level

0.1649

0.1506

1.09

0.0251

Farm size

−0.4299

0.1318

−3.26**

−0.6532

Social group

−0.1475

0.2978

−0.50

−0.0221

Distance to FGR

−0.1881

0.0172

−2.78***

−0.2858

Distance to market

−0.0455

0.0677

−2.64***

−0.0691

Income

9.13E-06

6.10E-06

1.50

1.39E-06

  1. Source: survey by authors, 2015 χ2 = 113.65***, log likelihood = −168.11, Pseudo R 2 = 0.25, N = 400, significance level ***(1%), **(5%)