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Table 6 Logistic regression model for determinants of livelihood strategy: agro-pastoral and off-farm

From: Are there options outside livestock economy? Diversification among households of northern Kenya

Livelihood strategy

B

Std. error

Wald

df

Sig.

Exp(B)

95 % confidence interval for Exp(B)

Lower bound

Upper bound

Agro-pastoral

Intercept

−25.089

3473.629

.000

1

.994

   

Number of income sources

.272

.210

1.670

1

.196

1.312

.869

1.982

Distance to water source

−.410

.262

2.449

1

.118

.664

.397

1.109

Education of household headc

−.185

.051

13.369

1

.000

.831

.752

.918

Age of household heada

.021

.013

2.776

1

.096

1.022

.996

1.047

Total tropical livestock units

−.010

.031

.101

1

.750

.990

.933

1.051

Durable indexb

.396

.128

9.482

1

.002

1.485

1.155

1.911

Total tropical livestock units losta

−.028

.015

3.323

1

.068

.972

.944

1.002

[HHsex = 1]a

.586

.354

2.747

1

.097

1.797

.899

3.592

[HHsex = 2]

0b

  

0

    
  1. The reference category is off-farm
  2. Levels of sifnificance:'a' significant at p<0.01;'b' significant at p=0.05; 'c' significant at p=0.1