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Table 1 Assessed variables and summary statistics for 324 smallholder households

From: Does market access improve dietary diversity and food security? Evidence from Southwestern Ethiopian smallholder coffee producers

Variables

Mean/proportion

SD

Min

Max

Dietary diversity and food security

 HDDS—food groups

8.48

1.40

4.0

11.0

 HDDS—purchase food items

7.29

1.40

3.0

11.0

 Food variety score (FVS)

15.61

3.74

7.0

30.0

 FVS with respect to purchase

11.62

3.29

4.0

25.0

 Food insecure—Yes=1

0.53

0.50

0.0

1.0

 Standardized HFIAS

0.00

1.00

− 0.8

3.6

Market access

 Distance to market in km

4.59

4.29

0.5

17.0

 Walking time to market in hours

0.77

0.72

0.1

3.0

 Distance to road in km

18.33

17.78

0.0

45.0

Agriculture characteristics

 Production diversity

6.47

2.70

0.0

16.0

 Production diversity score (PDS)

2.96

1.02

0.0

6.0

 Livestock holding in TLUs

1.85

2.50

0.0

21.4

 Farm size

1.58

1.34

0.0

11.0

 Nonfarm activities—Yes = 1

0.44

0.50

0.0

1.0

 Total agricultural income (1000)a

8.48

14.80

0.0

174.50

Demographic characteristics

 Household head age

44.67

14.90

20.0

92.0

 Household head education

3.83

3.57

0.0

14.0

 Female-headed household—Yes = 1

0.11

0.32

0.0

1.0

 Household size

5.23

1.88

2.0

14.0

  1. Table 5 in the Appendix provides a detailed description of variable measurement
  2. aExchange rate during the survey period was 1 Euro = 32 Ethiopian Birr. More than 96% of the farmers were involved in the production of coffee
  3. Source: Authors’ computation using survey data