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Table 5 Determinants of knowledge about bird flu symptoms, beliefs in good practices, and safe handling of poultry and poultry products, and perceptions of bird flu transmission

From: Examining the control of bird flu risks among Nigerian poultry producers: implication for effectiveness of biosecurity knowledge, attitude, and practices (EBKAP)

 

(1) Poisson regression

(2) Ordered probit

(3) Ordered logit

Knowledge KAP

Beliefs KAP

Perception KAP

Index on knowledge on AI symptoms (number)

 

0.1288***

0.1677

 

(0.0499)

(0.1031)

Index on beliefs about good practices (number)

  

0.6533***

  

(0.1220)

Head’s years of poultry raising experience (years)

0.0062

−0.0097

−0.0161

(0.0094)

(0.0078)

(0.0153)

Number of people in HH (number)

−0.0591**

 

0.0010

(0.0293)

 

(0.0513)

HH has child <12 years old (dummy = 1 if the household had children less than 12 years, 0 otherwise)

 

−0.3624***

−0.2443

 

(0.1150)

(0.2225)

Head is female (dummy I if head is female; 0 otherwise)

0.1655

0.1886

0.1568

(0.1587)

(0.1620)

(0.2954)

Head’s years of education (number)

0.0186

0.0245

0.0031

(0.0316)

(0.0291)

(0.0549)

Head’s years of education, squared (number)

−0.0007

−0.0009

0.0006

(0.0016)

(0.0015)

(0.0028)

Ln_totinc: log of total HH income (number)

0.0350*

0.0137

−0.0085

(0.0189)

(0.0109)

(0.0264)

Log of layer flock size (number)

0.0242**

−0.0061

0.0088

(0.0104)

(0.0095)

(0.0184)

Log of total poultry flock size (number)

 

−0.0058

−0.0225

 

(0.0116)

(0.0213)

Distance to nearest poultry farm (km)

−0.0005

 

0.0005

(0.0022)

 

(0.0028)

Distance to animal health shop (km)

−0.0037

  

(0.0053)

  

Outbreak of disease in village (dummy = 1 if there ever been an AI outbreak in the village)

0.3457***

0.3651***

0.4228**

(0.1195)

(0.1100)

(0.2055)

Kano (dummy = 1 if HH is from Kano; 0 otherwise)

−1.1122***

−0.0192

−0.2548

(0.2522)

(0.1370)

(0.2749)

Anambra (dummy = 1 if HH is from Anambra 0 otherwise)

−0.3017

0.0681

−0.8581***

(0.2412)

(0.1388)

(0.2850)

Constant

0.1287

  

(0.3176)

  

Cut1

 

−0.0861

1.8273*

 

(0.2168)

(0.9337)

Cut2

 

0.5676***

4.3409***

 

(0.2178)

(0.9583)

Cut3

  

5.8744***

  

(0.9776)

Observations

345

504

382

Log-likelihood

−424.665

−518.0708

−454.1188

chi2

61.39

39.3051

71.0058

p value

0.000

0.0001

0.0000

Pseudo R2

0.0674

0.0365

0.0725

  1. Standard errors in parentheses
  2. * p < 0.10, ** p < 0.05, *** p < 0.01
  3. Source: Field Survey, 2014