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Table 2 Difference among households in terms of livestock and farm holding (values are mean ± standard deviation)

From: Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: Evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia

Possession

Livelihood category

Household members

Agrarian

Pastoral

Agro-pastoral

Husbands

Wives

Sons

Daughters

Camel

0 ± 0.00

3.63 ± 4.02*

0.18 ± 0.89

1.46 ± 2.78*

0.02 ± 0.18

0.16 ± 0.72

0.03 ± 0.21

Goats

0 ± 0.00

15.66 ± 16.21*

2.98 ± 10.27

7.24 ± 13.05*

0.4 ± 1.61

0.49 ± 2.49

0.08 ± 0.57

Sheep

0.47 ± 1.39

4.16 ± 7.50

1.12 ± 3.40

1.84 ± 4.51

0.05 ± 0.47

0 ± 0.00

0 ± 0.00

Cattle

4.11 ± 4.04

2.18 ± 12.74

3.52 ± 3.52*

2.92 ± 7.95

0.09 ± 0.83

0.09 ± 0.86

0.01 ± 0.1

Chicken

3.66 ± 3.49*

0.19 ± 1.29

1.32 ± 2.39

0.85 ± 0.91

0.05 ± 0.24

0 ± 0.00

0 ± 0.00

Donkeys

1.16 ± 0.89

0.53 ± 0.78

1.12 ± 0.87

0.57 ± 1.6

0.65 ± 2.01

0 ± 0.00

0 ± 0.00

Farm size (tsimad)**

4.04 ± 2.9

3.44 ± 1.85

3.07 ± 1.53

2.38 ± 2.24

0.05 ± 0.37

0.04 ± 0.51

0 ± 0.00

  1. *Values across rows are significantly different (P<0.01)
  2. **a local unit of area of cultivated land which is a day's work of pair of oxen (tsimad), approximately equal to a quarter of a hectare