Does the future of a farm depend on its neighbourhood? Evidence on intra-family succession among fruit and vegetable farms in Italy

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 2 Descriptive statistics of the sample

Variable	Total farms in the sample (n = 266)		Farms with succession (n = 113)		Farms without succession (n = 153)
Variable	Mean	Std. dev.	Mean	Std. dev.	Mean	Std. dev.
Succession	0.42	0.50
Farmer age	56.04	9.56	55.76	10.63	56.29	8.68
Farmer degree	0.05	0.21	0.04	0.19	0.05	0.22
Farmer children	2.55	1.56	2.93	1.76	2.30	1.34
Turnover_250	0.30	0.46	0.17	0.38	0.40	0.49
Farm duration	32.85	22.71	35.68	23.39	29.68	21.24
RPFV farm	0.23	0.42	0.38	0.49	0.12	0.33
Fruit farm	0.38	0.49	0.22	0.42	0.52	0.50
Emplwork	25.73	32.93	33.71	34.14	20.00	31.04
Workdays	966.5	1206.1	1332.4	1407.6	696.3	965.6
Distance	55.29	138.31	66.61	149.29	49.43	132.98
Popdens	298.2	429.8	365.4	403.9	242.4	420.2
Empl	47.64	4.09	46.89	5.00	48.07	3.28
Agrshare	5.85	3.29	5.53	2.92	6.04	3.53
Incgap	29.68	9.27	27.22	8.99	31.70	9.15
Hills	0.04	0.21	0.09	0.29	0.01	0.11
Mountain	0.38	0.49	0.24	0.43	0.50	0.50
Regional dummies
Campania	0.13	0.33	0.22	0.42	0.07	0.25
Piemonte	0.06	0.24	0.03	0.16	0.09	0.29
Veneto	0.03	0.17	0.05	0.23	0.01	0.11
Emilia-Romagna	0.03	0.18	0.04	0.21	0.03	0.16