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Table 5 Current income, expenditure and calorie intake of sample households by household type

From: Impacts of Prosopis juliflora invasion on livelihoods of pastoral and agro-pastoral households of Dire Dawa Administration, Ethiopia

Pre-interv. variables

Invaded N = (250)

Non-invaded N = (200)

Sample household N = (450)

Means difference

t value

Mean

STD

Mean

STD

Mean

STD

Mean

STD

EDUEXPE

562.644

485.170

366.620

301.501

465.119

415.608

169.024

183.669

−4.860***

AAILS

1,719.946

2,651.149

2,161.128

2,267.842

1,939.439

2,474.703

−441.182

383.307

1.792*

AAIMP

656.990

1,130.953

941.050

1,663.434

798.313

1,426.359

−284.06

−532.481

2.004**

AAFW/CP

1,235.460

2,223.456

561.200

1,529.271

900.008

1,937.154

674.26

694.185

−3.539***

AAICP

3,053.03

2,350.367

2,215.006

1,881.04

2,636.106

2,168.163

838.031

469.326

−3.944***

OFFFARMIN

6,173.871

9,412.567

5,036.040

14,727.954

1,137.831

−5,315.39

5,607.786

12,344.151

−0.9240NS

FOaNFEXPE

9,879.327

5,684.264

6,429.45

5,636.152

8,162.970

5,911.239

3,449.877

48.112

−6.110***

HEALEXPE

243.158

252.378

153.170

295.857

198.388

278.198

89.988

−43.48

−3.282***

CALINTAKE

2,704.443

1,718.556

1,859.700

1,165.135

2,284.173

1,527.393

844.743

553.422

−5.763***

  1. Source: own survey data, 2015
  2. *, ** and *** mean significant at the 10%, 5% and 1% probability levels, respectively
  3. Not significant (NS)