Table 2 Descriptive statistics of variables
From: Farmgate versus market centre sales: a multi-crop approach
Variable | Maize | Groundnut | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Continuous variables | ||||||||
| Â | Mean | S.D. | Min. | Max. | Mean | S.D. | Min. | Max. |
 AGE | 46.98 | 16.09 | 21 | 88 | 42.35 | 15.44 | 19 | 90 |
 HHSIZE | 9.81 | 5.31 | 2 | 32 | 9.84 | 5.35 | 2 | 32 |
 EDUC | 2.56 | 4.49 | 0 | 22 | 2.38 | 4.09 | 0 | 18 |
 FRMSIZE | 1.10 | 0.57 | 0.40 | 2 | 1.22 | 0.56 | 0.40 | 2 |
 OUTPUT | 550.88 | 664.12 | 50 | 4450 | 520.21 | 497.22 | 7.5 | 4000 |
 YIELD | 466.58 | 415.44 | 41.67 | 2225 | 369.91 | 221.74 | 18.75 | 2000 |
 PRICE | 1.37 | 0.37 | 0.70 | 2.80 | 1.67 | 0.56 | 0.60 | 3.9 |
Categorical variables | ||||||||
| Â | Percentage | Percentage | ||||||
 PART | 48.5 | 83.5 | ||||||
 POS | 31.5 | 48.5 | ||||||
 GEN | 86.0 | 80.0 | ||||||
 MARST | 84.5 | 80.0 | ||||||
 ACCRE | 22.5 | 17.0 | ||||||
 MFBO | 91.5 | 87.0 | ||||||
 MKTINFO | 63.0 | 91.5 | ||||||
 EXTCON | 41.0 | 19.5 | ||||||
 FOS | – | 65.5 | ||||||