Table III. Logit model on adaptation of...

Table III.

Logit model on adaptation of water conservation technologies/practices

Explanatory variables	Marginal effects^a coefficients
Constant	–
	−0.392
Age of the household head	0.0003
Household size	0.008
Land holding size	0.008*
Perceived threat of food security (dummy)	0.368*
Gender of the household head (dummy)	−0.260**
Education of the household head (scale)	0.130*
Perception on increased occurrence of drought during rainy season	0.241**
Households having income also from non-agricultural sources (dummy)	0.240**
Village location (dummy)	−0.325***
Pseudo R Square	0.236
Log likelihood	126.50
LR Chi-square	32.16
Prob > Chi-square	0.0002
Overall percentage correctly predicted	73.3

Explanatory variables	Marginal effects^a coefficients
Constant	–
	−0.392
Age of the household head	0.0003
Household size	0.008
Land holding size	0.008*
Perceived threat of food security (dummy)	0.368*
Gender of the household head (dummy)	−0.260**
Education of the household head (scale)	0.130*
Perception on increased occurrence of drought during rainy season	0.241**
Households having income also from non-agricultural sources (dummy)	0.240**
Village location (dummy)	−0.325***
Pseudo R Square	0.236
Log likelihood	126.50
LR Chi-square	32.16
Prob > Chi-square	0.0002
Overall percentage correctly predicted	73.3

Notes:

Note:

***, ** and * denotes 1, 5 and 10% significant level respectively;

Marginal effects refer to the partial derivatives of the expected value with respect to the vector of characteristics. They are computed at the means of the Xs

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