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Table 5 Logistic regression predicting the practice of entrustment by cattle owners (n = 211)

From: The implications of herd entrustment practice for the sustainable use of cattle genetic resources in the (agro)-pastoral systems of West Africa: A case study from Benin

Predictors

β (coefficient)

SE of β

Wald’s χ2

df

p

eβi  (odds ratio)

Constant

0.065

0.537

0.015

1

0.903

1.067

Ethnicitya

− 1.819

0.422

18.53

1

0.000

0.162

Cattle keeping since childhoodb

− 0.394

0.361

1.194

1

0.275

0.674

Purchase as the mode of acquisition of the initial stockb

1.142

0.382

8.951

1

0.003

3.134

Total livestock units owned

0.162

0.056

8.477

1

0.004

1.176

Test

  

χ2

df

p

 

 Overall model evaluation

 

64.894

4

0.000

 

 Goodness-of-fit test (Hosmer and Lemeshow)

 

10.093

8

0.259

 

 −2 Log-likelihood 223.044

     

 Cox and Snell R2 = 0.265

      

 Nagelkerke R2 = 0.356

      
  1. a1 = Otammari; 0 = others; b1 = yes; 0 = no