A typology of smallholder livestock production systems reflecting the impact of the development of a local milk collection industry: Case study of Fatick region, Senegal

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Table 3 Top 5 relevant categorical variables that best describe the 40 farms from cluster 1. Overall sample n = 100 farms

Variable	v-test	Cla/Mod¹ (%)	Mod/Cla² (%)	Overall (%)³	p-value⁴
Type of buyers for farmer’s products: no answers	6.30	89.3	62.5	28	< 0.001
Farmers reducing concentrate use for environment protection: no	−5.96	14.3	20.0	56	< 0.001
Distance to markets: no answers	5.80	76.3	72.5	38	< 0.001
Selling agreement with buyers: no answers	5.64	88.0	55.0	25	< 0.001
Farmers selling milk: no	5.64	88.0	55.0	25	< 0.001

¹Proportions of farms with that answer in cluster 1 out of the overall number of farms with the same answer (e.g. out of the 28 farms, 89.3% of them gave the “no answer” response to the question “Type of buyers for farmer’s products”)
²Proportions of farms in cluster 1 with that answer out of the number of farmers in cluster 1 (e.g. 62.5% of the 40 farms in this cluster gave “no answer” to the question “type of buyers for farmer’s products”)
³Proportions of farms with that answer out of the total number of surveyed farms (N=100)
⁴Overall vs cluster (α < 0.05)