Table I. Explanatory variables selected... | Emerald Publishing

Table I.

Explanatory variables selected for the empirical models

Variable	Expected sign	Description	Capital assets	Mean	SD
Age of HH head	+	Age of household head in years	Human capital	44.90	11.99
Age² (of HH head)	−	Age (of household head) squared	Human capital	2159	1149
HH size	+	Number of household members	Human capital	5.14	1.76
Female-headed HH	−	Household is female headed: 0 = male; 1 = female	Human capital	0.18	0.39
Education of HH head	+	Number of years in school completed by the household head	Human capital	3.43	3.17
Health status (sickness)	−	Number of family members who are in bad health	Human capital	0.33	0.98
Perception of climate change	+	Household perceived changes of extreme climate events (i.e. flood, drought)	Human capital	0.96	0.21
Past experience with drought	+	The average loss of paddy production during drought year (in percentage) compared with normal production year	Human capital	0.24	0.28
Farmland area	±	Area of cultivated farmland (hectares)	Natural capital	1.14	1.34
Access to water	+	Amount of water available to household farmland: 1 = low availability or too much water; 2 = moderate; 3 = good for agricultural production	Natural capital	2.09	0.80
Physical assets	+	The current value of all physical assets owned by the household (in million Riel local currency)	Physical capital	4.87	7.82
Access to market	−	Distance to the nearest main road (in kilometers)	Physical capital	0.11	0.62
Access to credit	+	Number of financial sources household able to access (i.e. formal banks and government programs/village development fund, self-organized saving groups, informal credit from relatives or friends)	Financial capital	2.04	0.67
Trust	+	General trust among people living in the village/community: 1 = no; 2 = partly; 3 = yes	Social capital	2.47	0.55
Sangke Satob	±	Household located in Sangke Satob commune: 1 = Yes; 0 = otherwise	Social, natural, physical capital	0.34	0.48
Tum Ring	±	Household located in Tum Ring commune: 1 = Yes; 0 = otherwise	Social, natural, physical capital	0.32	0.47

Variable	Expected sign	Description	Capital assets	Mean	SD
Age of HH head	+	Age of household head in years	Human capital	44.90	11.99
Age² (of HH head)	−	Age (of household head) squared	Human capital	2159	1149
HH size	+	Number of household members	Human capital	5.14	1.76
Female-headed HH	−	Household is female headed: 0 = male; 1 = female	Human capital	0.18	0.39
Education of HH head	+	Number of years in school completed by the household head	Human capital	3.43	3.17
Health status (sickness)	−	Number of family members who are in bad health	Human capital	0.33	0.98
Perception of climate change	+	Household perceived changes of extreme climate events (i.e. flood, drought)	Human capital	0.96	0.21
Past experience with drought	+	The average loss of paddy production during drought year (in percentage) compared with normal production year	Human capital	0.24	0.28
Farmland area	±	Area of cultivated farmland (hectares)	Natural capital	1.14	1.34
Access to water	+	Amount of water available to household farmland: 1 = low availability or too much water; 2 = moderate; 3 = good for agricultural production	Natural capital	2.09	0.80
Physical assets	+	The current value of all physical assets owned by the household (in million Riel local currency)	Physical capital	4.87	7.82
Access to market	−	Distance to the nearest main road (in kilometers)	Physical capital	0.11	0.62
Access to credit	+	Number of financial sources household able to access (i.e. formal banks and government programs/village development fund, self-organized saving groups, informal credit from relatives or friends)	Financial capital	2.04	0.67
Trust	+	General trust among people living in the village/community: 1 = no; 2 = partly; 3 = yes	Social capital	2.47	0.55
Sangke Satob	±	Household located in Sangke Satob commune: 1 = Yes; 0 = otherwise	Social, natural, physical capital	0.34	0.48
Tum Ring	±	Household located in Tum Ring commune: 1 = Yes; 0 = otherwise	Social, natural, physical capital	0.32	0.47