Farmers’ self-reported value of cooperative membership: evidence from heterogeneous business and organization structures

Alho, Eeva

doi:10.1186/s40100-015-0041-6

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 6 Ordered probit regressions for self-reported value of membership benefits

From: Farmers’ self-reported value of cooperative membership: evidence from heterogeneous business and organization structures

Variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
	Market channel	Proximity	Services	Producer price	Bargaining power	Control
Dairy dummy	1.242***	0.389	1.589***	1.101***	1.049***	0.386
Dairy dummy	(0.29)	(0.26)	(0.27)	(0.28)	(0.25)	(0.25)
Pig dummy	0.791***	0.096	0.430	0.437	0.509*	0.501*
Pig dummy	(0.30)	(0.27)	(0.29)	(0.29)	(0.27)	(0.27)
Field area	−0.105***	−0.036	−0.153	−0.002	0.018	0.041*
Field area	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.022)	(0.02)
Buyers	0.141***	0.112**	0.087*	0.228***	0.143***	0.088*
Buyers	(0.05)	(0.05)	(0.05)	(0.06)	(0.05)	(0.05)
Expanded dummy	0.392**	−0.021	0.222	0.516***	0.401***	0.297**
Expanded dummy	(0.18)	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.17)	(0.15)	(0.15)
Will expand dummy	0.515***	0.393***	0.684***	0.482***	0.527***	0.235*
Will expand dummy	(0.17)	(0.14)	(0.14)	(0.17)	(0.14)	(0.14)
Female dummy	0.182	0.263*	0.355**	0.303*	0.10	−0.068
Female dummy	(0.18)	(0.15)	(0.15)	(0.18)	(0.15)	(0.14)
Age	0.205***	0.022***	0.020***	0.010**	0.013***	0.015***
Age	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)	(0.004)
Distance, 10 km	0.012	−0.022*	0.01	−0.005	0.001	−0.008
Distance, 10 km	(0.13)	(0.013	(0.01)	(0.13)	(0.01)	(0.01)
Dairy-distance interaction	−0.021	0.010	−0.03	0.020	−0.01	0.017
Dairy-distance interaction	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.02)	(0.03)	(0.02)	(0.02)
Marketing dummy	−0.478	0.639**	−0.148	−0.541*	−0.455	−0.269
Marketing dummy	(0.33)	(0.30)	(0.30)	(0.33)	(0.30)	(0.29)
Dairy-large dummy	0.188	0.018	−0.303*	0.082	−0.233	−0.075
Dairy-large dummy	(0.21)	(0.17)	(0.17)	(0.21)	(0.17)	(0.16)
Pig-large dummy	−0.554	−0.218	−0.914**	−1.466***	−1.352***	−1.011***
Pig-large dummy	(0.38)	(0.36)	(0.36)	(0.39)	(0.37)	(0.36)
Region West	0.204	0.381***	−0.269*	0.188	0.211	−0.011
Region West	(0.16)	(0.14)	(0.25)	(0.16)	(0.14)	(0.14)
Region North-East	0.033	0.268	−0.103	0.319	0.493*	0.227
Region North-East	(0.30)	(0.27)	(0.27)	(0.30)	(0.27)	(0.26)
Threshold parameters
μ₁	0.209***	0.598***	0.771***	0.436***	0.721***	0.799***
μ₁	(0.08)	(0.07)	(0.09)	(0.09)	(0.08)	(0.07)
μ₂	0.774***	1.430***	1.827***	1.156***	1.701***	1.778***
μ₂	(0.086)	(0.069)	(0.075)	(0.08)	(0.07)	(0.07)
μ₁	1.868***	2.556***	3.189***	1.993	2.756***	2.729***
μ₁	(0.10)	(0.08)	(0.09)	(0.09)	(0.08)	(0.09)
N	362	359	361	358	360	360
Log likelihood	−316.84	−472.78	−434.55	−351.90	−465.70	−518.19
Chi ²	42.45***	38.16***	82.55***	84.51***	54.50***	27.08***
Pseudo R²	0.0628	0.0388	0.0867	0.1072	0.0553	0.0254

Dependent variables 1–6 are the Likert scale responses to selected value statements recoded to 0–4. The table reports the estimated probit coefficients and their standard errors in parentheses. The original statements are presented in Tables 2 and 3. ***(p < 0.01), **(p < 0.05), *(p < 0.1)

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