The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 1 Characteristics of sample respondents

Variables	Nonmembers		Members		Combined
Variables	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.	Mean	Std. Err.
Age	36.48	0.98	37.91	1.17	37.17	0.76
Sex	0.84	0.03	0.87	0.03	0.85	0.02
Education	0.30	0.04	0.41	0.04	0.36	0.03
Farming experience	20.36	0.96	18.98	0.90	19.69	0.66
Social responsibility	0.11	0.03	0.64	0.04	0.36	0.03
Land owned	7.55	0.38	8.08	0.41	7.81	0.28
Number of oxen	0.96	0.08	1.36	0.19	1.16	0.10
Off/nonfarm activity	0.09	0.02	0.24	0.04	0.16	0.02
Market information	0.84	0.03	0.79	0.04	0.82	0.03
Market distance	4.45	0.52	5.98	0.70	5.19	0.44
Coop office distance	2.46	0.27	1.57	0.17	2.03	0.16
Livestock in TLU	2.94	0.19	3.99	0.73	3.45	0.37
Family aged delow 16	4.47	0.31	4.34	0.23	4.40	0.20
Family aged above 50	0.27	0.10	0.60	0.12	0.43	0.08
Family size in AE	4.99	0.25	5.26	0.21	5.12	0.16
TLU less oxen	1.98	0.14	2.63	0.56	2.29	0.28
TLU per AE	0.66	0.05	0.79	0.10	0.72	0.05
Land per AE	1.79	0.12	1.78	0.12	1.79	0.09
Babile	0.60	0.04	0.55	0.05	0.58	0.03
Gursum	0.22	0.04	0.21	0.04	0.22	0.03
Fedis	0.18	0.03	0.23	0.04	0.20	0.03