Table 1 Individual characteristics of...

Table 1

Individual characteristics of female cooperative members and non-members

Variables	Total		Non-member		Cooperative member
Variables	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age wife (years)	34.67	11.49	30.24	10.00	36.78	11.56
Age husband (years)	40.68	13.26	35.94	12.08	42.94	13.22
Education wife (years)	4.41	3.29	5.22	3.08	4.03	3.31
Education husband (years)	6.39	3.53	6.84	3.33	6.18	3.60
Polygamous household (dummy)	0.33	0.47	0.28	0.45	0.35	0.48
Household size	7.10	4.35	6.21	2.37	7.52	4.98
Number of children	5.52	3.18	4.39	3.04	6.06	3.11
Malaria prevalence (per month)	0.44	0.50	0.39	0.50	0.47	0.50
Land area (acres)	1.79	1.88	1.48	1.78	1.94	1.91
Land wife (acres)	0.34	0.83	0.28	0.59	0.37	0.92
Land husband (acres)	1.45	1.55	1.20	1.68	1.57	1.46
Income (in USh)
Coffee sales (in USh, annual)	684,150	822,463	549,536	610,329	748,346	899,922
Total savings (in USh)	136,032	291,495	90,569	199,039	157,713	324,480
Income wife (in USh, last 7 days)	19,267	32,567	17,427	30,796	20,146	33,380
Income husband (in USh, last 7 days)	37,748	69,579	46,979	92,766	33,346	54,796
Wife's decision-making
Say in health expenditures (dummy)	0.59	0.49	0.47	0.50	0.65	0.48
Say in education expenditures (dummy)	0.60	0.49	0.47	0.50	0.67	0.47
Say in food expenditures (dummy)	0.69	0.46	0.60	0.49	0.73	0.45
Cooperative variables
Coop membership wife (years)					5.76	4.03
Coop member husband (dummy)					0.35	0.48
Husband member in wife's SHG (dummy)					0.22	0.41
Wife coop member first (dummy)					0.11	0.32
Coop member relatives (dummy)					0.36	0.48
SHG size					35.55	18.22
SHG $> 80 %$ female (dummy)					0.65	0.48
Distance to main road (walking minutes)					34.50	30.10
No. of observations	607		196		411

Variables	Total		Non-member		Cooperative member
Variables	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age wife (years)	34.67	11.49	30.24	10.00	36.78	11.56
Age husband (years)	40.68	13.26	35.94	12.08	42.94	13.22
Education wife (years)	4.41	3.29	5.22	3.08	4.03	3.31
Education husband (years)	6.39	3.53	6.84	3.33	6.18	3.60
Polygamous household (dummy)	0.33	0.47	0.28	0.45	0.35	0.48
Household size	7.10	4.35	6.21	2.37	7.52	4.98
Number of children	5.52	3.18	4.39	3.04	6.06	3.11
Malaria prevalence (per month)	0.44	0.50	0.39	0.50	0.47	0.50
Land area (acres)	1.79	1.88	1.48	1.78	1.94	1.91
Land wife (acres)	0.34	0.83	0.28	0.59	0.37	0.92
Land husband (acres)	1.45	1.55	1.20	1.68	1.57	1.46
Income (in USh)
Coffee sales (in USh, annual)	684,150	822,463	549,536	610,329	748,346	899,922
Total savings (in USh)	136,032	291,495	90,569	199,039	157,713	324,480
Income wife (in USh, last 7 days)	19,267	32,567	17,427	30,796	20,146	33,380
Income husband (in USh, last 7 days)	37,748	69,579	46,979	92,766	33,346	54,796
Wife's decision-making
Say in health expenditures (dummy)	0.59	0.49	0.47	0.50	0.65	0.48
Say in education expenditures (dummy)	0.60	0.49	0.47	0.50	0.67	0.47
Say in food expenditures (dummy)	0.69	0.46	0.60	0.49	0.73	0.45
Cooperative variables
Coop membership wife (years)					5.76	4.03
Coop member husband (dummy)					0.35	0.48
Husband member in wife's SHG (dummy)					0.22	0.41
Wife coop member first (dummy)					0.11	0.32
Coop member relatives (dummy)					0.36	0.48
SHG size					35.55	18.22
SHG $> 80 %$ female (dummy)					0.65	0.48
Distance to main road (walking minutes)					34.50	30.10
No. of observations	607		196		411

Note(s): The U.S. Dollar amount is calculated at the exchange rate of $1 = USh 2,450 of the month the survey was completed (July 2012)

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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