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Table 2

Variable description and descriptive statistics

	Variable name	Definition and assignment	Mean value	Standard deviation
Dependent variable	Whether to adopt climate change adaptation behavior	1 Yes, 0 No	0.87	0.34
Dependent variable	Usage intensity	Take any one of the 12 climate change adaptation behaviors, denote the intensity as “1”, take 2 behaviors, denote “2”, and so on	1.57	1.10
Explanatory variable	Perception of temperature	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.73	0.93
	Perception of extreme weather	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.65	0.84
	Perception of rainfall	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.74	0.92
	Livelihood resilience	Calculated	0.07	0.02
Control variable	Gender of head of household	1 male, 0 female	0.91	0.29
	Age of household head	Actual age/year of household head	55.31	11.00
	Is the household head a village cadre	1 Yes, 0 No	0.11	0.31
	Family's highest level of education	Family's maximum education years/year	10.89	3.74
	Number of cultivated land blocks	Total number of household arable land/piece	2.73	2.35

	Variable name	Definition and assignment	Mean value	Standard deviation
Dependent variable	Whether to adopt climate change adaptation behavior	1 Yes, 0 No	0.87	0.34
Dependent variable	Usage intensity	Take any one of the 12 climate change adaptation behaviors, denote the intensity as “1”, take 2 behaviors, denote “2”, and so on	1.57	1.10
Explanatory variable	Perception of temperature	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.73	0.93
	Perception of extreme weather	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.65	0.84
	Perception of rainfall	1 significantly decreased, 2 slightly decreased, 3 remained unchanged, 4 slightly increased, and 5 significantly increased	3.74	0.92
	Livelihood resilience	Calculated	0.07	0.02
Control variable	Gender of head of household	1 male, 0 female	0.91	0.29
	Age of household head	Actual age/year of household head	55.31	11.00
	Is the household head a village cadre	1 Yes, 0 No	0.11	0.31
	Family's highest level of education	Family's maximum education years/year	10.89	3.74
	Number of cultivated land blocks	Total number of household arable land/piece	2.73	2.35

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