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Table 7 Distribution of sampled farm households by level of production efficiency and source of livelihood

From: Off-farm labour supply and production efficiency of farm household in rural Southwest Nigeria

Level of farm household production efficiency

Households that derived their labour based income from:

All farmhouseholds in the sample

Farm sector only

Farm and non-farm sectors

No

%

No

%

No

%

Below 0.10

121

46.7

47

20.5

168

34.3

0.10 - <0.20

90

34.8

87

37.8

177

36.2

0.20 - <0.30

28

10.8

49

21.3

77

15.7

0.30 - <0.40

10

3.9

20

8.7

30

6.2

0.40 - <0.50

5

2.0

18

7.9

23

4.8

0.50 & higher

5

1.9

9

3.9

14

2.9

Total

259

100.0

230

100

489

100

Mean

0.1374

0.2114

0.1782

Std. error of mean

0.0073

0.0095

0.0061

  1. NOTE: The calculated t-value in a test of difference between the mean production efficiency of the two categories of farm households was 6.18 as against a critical t-value of 2.58 at p < 0.01 and 487 degree of freedom.