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Table 5 Top 5 relevant categorical variables that best describe the 32 farms from cluster 2. Overall sample n = 100 farms

From: 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

Variable

v-test

Cla/Mod1 (%)

Mod/Cla2 (%)

Overall (%)3

p-value4

Feeding systems: animals mostly in transhumance

8.12

75.6

96.9

41

< 0.001

Drought response: transhumance

7.73

75.0

93.8

40

< 0.001

Crop diversity5: no answers

7.21

75.7

87.5

37

< 0.001

Farmers applying combination of agriculture and livestock: yes

-7.21

1.9

3.1

53

< 0.001

Use of fertilizers and crop residues: yes

-6.90

7.8

15.6

64

< 0.001

  1. 1Proportions of farms with that answer in cluster 2 out of the overall number of farms with the same answer (e.g. out of the 41 farms, 96.9% of them gave the “animals mostly in transhumance” response to the question “Feeding systems”)
  2. 2Proportions of farms in cluster 1 with that answer out of the number of farmers in cluster 2 (e.g. 96.9% of the 32 farms in this cluster gave “animals mostly in transhumance” response to the question “Feeding systems”)
  3. 3Proportions of farms with that answer out of the total number of surveyed farms (N = 100)
  4. 4Overall vs cluster (α < 0.05)
  5. 5Most producers in cluster 2 do not practise agriculture. “No answer” means that in most cases they had responded “no” to the previous question that asks whether they do agriculture or not
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