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Table 5 Correlation between MI and DP and between the coefficient of variation of MI and of DP

From: Do CAP direct payments stabilise farm income? Empirical evidences from a constant sample of Italian farms

  

Sample size number

Correlationa between:

MI and DP (mean)

CV(MI) and PSEb

Types of farming (TF):

TF

   

 Specialist field crops

1

443

−0.094 ***

0.016

 Specialist horticulture

2

276

−0.024

0.264

 Specialist permanent Crops

3

689

−0.033 *

0.180

 Specialist grazing livestock

4

467

−0.036 *

0.109

 Specialist granivore

5

82

−0.043

0.254

 Mixed cropping

6

147

−0.086 **

0.296

 Mixed livestock and Mixed crops-livestock

7

87

−0.048

0.023

Economic size (ESU):

 Small (Classes 1, 2, 3)

 

603

−0.086 ***

0.036

 Medium (Classes 4, 5, 6)

 

1484

−0.045 ***

0.052

 Large (Classes 7, 8)

 

104

0.062

0.356

PSE level:

 No DP

0

247

/

/

 Low

1st

538

0.002

0.057

 Low-Medium

2nd

523

−0.059 ***

0.017

 Medium-High

3rd

500

−0.061 ***

0.061

 High

4th

383

−0.104 ***

0.064

Total sub-sample

 

2191

−0.051 ***

0.045

  1. Farms with non-negative MI. Whole sub-sample and considered groups
  2. Source: Own elaborations on a constant sample of the Italian FADN farms, years 2003–2012
  3. aSignificantly different from zero at 1 % (***), 5 % (**) and 10 % (*). bPSE = DP/(REV + DP)