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Table 1 Socio-economic and demographic characteristics of the surveyed households

From: The role of camel production on household resilience to droughts in pastoral and agro-pastoral households in Uganda

Variable

All households (n = 116)

Camel households (n = 52)

Non-camel households (n = 64)

t-statistic

Mean

Std. Dev.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Mean

Std. Dev.

Per capita income (UShs ‘000)

163.06

303.767

231.67

419.315

107.32

138.063

− 2.230**

Occupation of household head (1, pastoralist; 0, otherwise)

0.74

0.440

0.75

0.437

0.73

0.445

− 0.190

Age of household head (years)

49.62

14.975

54.19

13.776

45.91

14.982

− 3.070*

Years of experience in rearing camels

  

26.05

20.281

   

Marital status (1, married polygamous; 0, otherwise)

0.74

0.439

0.81

0.398

0.69

0.467

− 1.446

Household size (continuous)

11.05

5.138

11.27

5.010

10.88

5.272

− 0.410

Household member completed primary

0.17

0.379

0.19

0.398

0.16

0.366

− 0.507

Dependence ratio

0.67

0.818

0.71

0.823

0.64

0.819

− 0.423

On-farm income (UShs ‘000)

1085.00

1471.227

1628.80

1728.317

643.16

1044.305

− 3.791*

Off-farm income (UShs ‘000)

411.35

1172.925

318.04

526.811

487.17

1507.846

0.771

Proportion of off-farm income to total income

0.36

0.379

0.26

0.353

0.44

0.381

2.667*

Access to credit (1, yes; 0, otherwise)

0.29

0.457

0.25

0.440

0.32

0.471

0.783

Number of alternative sources of income (continuous)

1.00

0.780

0.92

0.788

1.06

0.774

0.9567

Assets owned (0 = only agric; 1 = agric and non-agric)

0.66

0.510

0.73

0.490

0.61

0.523

− 1.279

Crop area cultivated

4.40

3.691

4.86

4.037

4.02

3.371

− 1.220

Feeling of food scarcity (1 = yes; 0 = no)

0.93

0.254

0.88

0.323

0.97

0.175

1.788***

Months of scarcity

5.49

4.622

5.00

4.847

5.89

4.622

1.010

Meals consumed per day in times of scarcity

1.45

0.450

1.47

0.504

1.43

0.450

− 0.336

Proportion of food consumed in scarcity

0.59

0.595

0.66

0.726

0.54

0.471

− 1.063

Received extension

0.41

0.495

0.48

0.505

0.36

0.484

− 1.319

Member of social group

0.41

0.494

0.31

0.466

0.49

0.504

0.291

Received remittances

0.21

0.407

0.15

0.364

0.25

0.436

1.269

Distance to nearest input stockiest

8.31

6.756

9.19

6.473

7.63

6.942

− 1.204

Distance to nearest extension office

6.69

5.817

6.41

5.648

6.91

5.980

0.446

Distance to nearest health centre

4.08

3.520

4.17

3.555

4.01

3.520

− 0.242

Distance to nearest primary school

2.67

3.110

3.04

4.258

2.36

1.604

− 1.154

Distance to nearest secondary schools

11.09

6.663

11.44

7.124

10.83

6.355

− 0.469

  1. ***Significant at 10%, **significant at 5%, *significant at 1%