Table 6

Factors that influence choice of household’s financial management adaptation Strategies 3, 4, 6 and 9 using Bayesian multinomial logit model

Strategy-3Strategy-4Strategy-6Strategy-9
Age0.1110.028−0.061−0.110
Gender−0.407*−0.566−0.5820.573*
Level of education0.063*−0.0810.165*0.122*
Employment status0.070*0.0460.058−0.172*
Income per month−0.0270.2040.060−0.066
Income instability0.895*−0.1620.5401.043
Shrinking work opportunity1.6230.1600.5030.064
Number of dependents in family−0.248−0.0020.417*−0.033
Other’s financial contribution in family−0.117−0.2420.074−0.088
Savings−0.0760.890*0.2690.338
Comparison of household expense to pre-pandemic expense0.047*−0.295−0.1560.378*
Major sources of expenditure−0.143*−0.1520.1230.124
_cons−4.088*0.415−4.120*−2.615*
Log marginal-likelihood−342.451−359.457−286.692−367.708
Acceptance rate0.2010.2850.2160.253

Note(s): * denote degree of significance at 10% level

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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