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Table 3 Descriptive statistics

From: Effects of farmers’ social networks on knowledge acquisition: lessons from agricultural training in rural Indonesia

Variables

Coffee farmers

Cocoa farmers

P value of t-statistics

Mean

Std. dev.

Min

Max

Mean

Std. dev.

Min

Max

Demographic characteristics

Years of experience of cultivating coffee (for coffee farmers) and cocoa (for cocoa farmers)

17.46

11.88

0

60

8.55

8.76

0

40

0.000***

Years of education of household head

7.90

3.22

0

16

8.42

3.24

3

16

0.312

Age of household head

44.27

11.30

21

80

44.88

9.78

28

75

0.720

Cultivated farmland (in Ha)

1.09

0.87

0

5

1.17

0.95

0

5

0.578

Log of farm income (in Rupiah)

16.26

1.08

13.08

18.61

16.38

1.04

13.91

18.61

0.479

Mobile phone possession (=1 if owning)

0.85

0.36

0

1

0.81

0.40

0

1

0.505

Native of Lampung (=1 if yes)

0.27

0.45

0

1

0.26

0.44

0

1

0.888

Second-generation migrant (=1 if yes)

0.60

0.49

0

1

0.59

0.50

0

1

0.899

No. of household members

4.23

1.70

1

12

4.27

1.73

1

12

0.883

Male ratio in the household

0.55

0.16

0.25

1

0.54

0.17

0.25

1

0.702

Agricultural inputs

No. of hired labor

2.87

2.22

0

15

3.13

2.41

1

15

0.478

Annual usage of organic fertilizer (in Kg)

771.74

1079.33

0

5800

792.57

1018.07

0

4500

0.901

Annual usage of chemical fertilizer (in Kg)

193.00

232.87

0

1500

241.18

253.18

0

1500

0.211

Annual usage of fertilizer in total (in Kg)

964.74

1184.43

0

5800

1033.7

1137.58

0

4800

0.709

Information sources

Knowing extension workers (=1 if yes)

0.85

0.36

0

1

0.84

0.37

0

1

0.863

No. of agricultural advice network

5.21

2.99

1

14

5.11

3.91

1

20

0.853

No. of advice network within the farmers group

3.67

2.81

0

12

3.83

3.79

0

19

0.757

Living nearby extension workers (within 15-min walking distance)

0.21

0.41

0

1

0.24

0.43

0

1

0.652

Observations

95

   

68

    
  1. ***, **, and * signify statistical significance at the 1, 5, and 10% level, respectively