Table 1 Description and summary statistics of variables.
Variables | Description | Mean |
|---|---|---|
Production value per land | Production value of olives per unit of land (hundred NIS/ha) | 64.312 |
| Â | Â | (44.645) |
Labor inputs per land | Total number of family and wage labor used for olive cultivation per unit of land (number/ha) | 7.319 |
| Â | Â | (8.075) |
Paid cost per land | Total paid cost including fertilizer, pesticides, water and others per unit of land (hundred NIS/ha) | 10.169 |
| Â | Â | (15.710) |
Paid wage cost per land | Total paid wage cost per unit of land (hundred NIS/ha) | 19.261 |
| Â | Â | (24.345) |
Trees per land | Total number of olive trees per unit of land (hundred/ha) | 1.529 |
| Â | Â | (0.417) |
Organic farming | 1 if farm adopted organic farming, 0 otherwise | 0.307 |
| Â | Â | (0.462) |
Family labor | Number of family labor used for olive cultivation (number) | 4.636 |
| Â | Â | (4.138) |
Wage labor | Number of wage labor used for olive cultivation (number) | 4.153 |
| Â | Â | (6.189) |
Capital-land ratio | Ratio of capital to land area (hundred NIS/ha) | 25.379 |
| Â | Â | (120.457) |
Age | Age of household head (years) | 54.739 |
| Â | Â | (11.456) |
Education | Years of education of household head (years) | 12.513 |
| Â | Â | (4.716) |
Farm years | Years of farming (years) | 22.211 |
| Â | Â | (12.309) |
Olive trees | Total number of olive trees (hundred) | 4.104 |
| Â | Â | (4.309) |
Age olive trees | Average age of olive trees (years) | 38.824 |
| Â | Â | (23.341) |
Share of irrigated area | Share of irrigated area (%) | 10.010 |
| Â | Â | (18.829) |
Price olive oil | Price of olive oil (NIS/kg) | 22.789 |
| Â | Â | (2.319) |
Biennial bearing | 1 if fam had a good harvest year due to biennial bearing, 0 otherwise | 0.479 |
| Â | Â | (0.501) |
Distance to mill | Distance to the nearest olive oil mill (km) | 4.200 |
| Â | Â | (4.912) |
Access to Cannan | 1 if farmer have access to Cannan fair trade, 0 otherwise | 0.234 |
| Â | Â | (0.424) |
Modern olive presses | Number of operating modern and full automatic olive presses in Jenin (number) | 58.483 |
| Â | Â | (2.961) |