Factors Affecting Women Access to Agricultural Extension Services: Evidence from Poultry Producer Women’s in Northwestern Tigray, Ethiopia

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Table 1. Description of variables included in the model estimation

Code	Type	Description
Sizehh	Continuous	Family size of women producer in number
Age	Continuous	Age of women poultry producer
Education	Continuous	Education level of women poultry producer
Farmland	Continuous	Size of farmland owned by the sampled household in ha
Information	Dummy	1, if respondent has access of poultry extension information, 0 otherwise
Extvisit	Contnous	Number of times visited by extension agents
Credit	Dummy	1, if household got credit, 0 otherwise
Training	Dummy	1, if household has access of training on poultry production, 0 otherwise
Areavist	Dummy	1, if household has access to visit other place, 0 otherwise
Participation	Dummy	1, if household has access to participate on different extension events, 0 otherwise

Source: author’s computation

Table 2. The mean values of socio-economic characteristics of the sampled women poultry producers

Variables	Extension accessed	Extension not accessed	Mean difference
Age of women producer	41.70	44.70	3.00**
Family size of women producer	5.24	3.12	2.12***
Education level of women producer	4.10	3.80	0.30
Farmland size of household in ha	0.59	0.71	0.12**
Access to information (1 = yes)	0.86	0.54	0.32***
Times of visit by extension agents	3.27	1.83	1.44***
Access to training (1 = yes)	0.89	0.61	0.28**
Access to credit service (1 = yes)	0.73	0.49	0.24**
Experience sharing visit (1 = yes)	0.65	0.54	0.11
Participation on extension évent (1 = yes)	0.95	0.77	0.18
N	111	72

Source: own survey result. *** Significant at the 1% level; **Significant at the 5% level

Table 3. Poultry housing and health management

Household’s response	Access to extension	No access to extension	X^2 Value	P value
Separate poultry house
Yes	82.9%	41.67%
No	17.1%	58.33%	15.974	0.000
Total	100%	100%
Vaccination
Yes	54.05%	18.06%	12.163	0.002
No	45.95 %	81.94%
Total	100%	100%

Table 4. Logit results for factors affecting the access of women to poultry extension services

Variables	Coefficient	St. Err	P-value	Odds ratio
Age	−0.97	0.058	0.046**	1.103
Family Size	1.107	0.543	0.042**	3.024
Education	−0.754	0.513	0.142	0.471
Farmland	−3.943	2.132	0.044**	0.019
Information	5.628	2.137	0.008***		278.222
Extvisit	2.019	0.730	0.006***	7.527
Training	4.144	1.925	0.031 **	63.041
Credit	2.059	1.311	0.116	7.837
Expvisit	1.593	1.310	0.224	4.918
Part indi exser	0.432	0.610	0.479	1.540
Number of obs	183
LR chi2 (10)	66.15
Prob > chi2	0.0000
Pseudo R2	0.6149

Source: own survey result, *** Significant at the 1% level; **Significant at the 5% level,