Table 3 Descriptive statistics of contributions of labour and non-labour sources to farm households’ income
From: Off-farm labour supply and production efficiency of farm household in rural Southwest Nigeria
Income source | Households deriving income from source | Income per average household in the entire sample | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | % | Avg. receipt | Std. error | Mean | Std. error | % of GTA | % of TLS | |
Household farms | ||||||||
Arable crop production | 480 | 98.1 | 111,281.26 | 6,602.30 | 109,141.24 | 6,561.58 | 30.6 | 38.7 |
Tree crops production | 263 | 53.8 | 86,767.81 | 5,185.84 | 57,984.26 | 4,477.04 | 16.3 | 20.5 |
Livestock production | 229 | 46.8 | 14,755.36 | 1,767.86 | 8,512.71 | 1,137.22 | 2.4 | 3.0 |
Sub-total (Household farms) | 489 | 100.0 | 175,638.21 | 7,684.42 | 175,638.21 | 7,684.42 | 49.2 | 62.2 |
Add: Natural resource collection | 115 | 23.6 | 40,724.10 | 7,159.62 | 9,593.66 | 2,059.84 | 2.7 | 3.4 |
Agro-processing | 82 | 16.8 | 86,154.40 | 11,807.07 | 14,497.13 | 2,978.50 | 4.1 | 5.1 |
Labour on others’ farms | 85 | 17.3 | 26,348.45 | 6,813.71 | 4,560.31 | 1,355.97 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
Sub total (Farm sector) | 489 | 100.0 | 204,289.30 | 8,574.58 | 204,289.31 | 8,574.57 | 57.3 | 72.4 |
Artisanship & Craft | 94 | 19.2 | 149,417.81 | 12,120.70 | 28,734.19 | 4,698.43 | 8.1 | 10.2 |
Trading | 109 | 22.2 | 112,817.49 | 10,011.92 | 24,950.02 | 3,925.55 | 7.0 | 8.8 |
Formal employment | 49 | 10.1 | 175,620.31 | 32,551.50 | 17,730.90 | 4,884.71 | 5.0 | 6.3 |
Other non-farm labour sources | 37 | 7.6 | 85,268.60 | 12,615.72 | 6,559.12 | 1,838.80 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
Sub total (Non-farm sector) | 230 | 47.1 | 165,496.33 | 12,706.03 | 77,974.23 | 8,283.25 | 21.9 | 27.6 |
Total Labour Sources (TLS) | 489 | 100.0 | 282,263.54 | 10,978.18 | 282,263.54 | 10,978.19 | 79.1 | 100.0 |
Add: Remittances | 320 | 65.4 | 54,143.14 | 4,058.35 | 35,401.28 | 3,198.20 | 9.9 | |
Income generating assets | 334 | 68.3 | 57,249.60 | 5,431.39 | 39,083.86 | 4,141.02 | 11.0 | |
Grand Total, All Sources (GTA) | 489 | 100.0 | 356,748.68 | 12,389.87 | 356,748.68 | 12,389.87 | 100.0 | |