For each equation, we include explanatory variables for age, age squared, education, household size, distance from the off-farm job, off-farm wage, and whether they obtain health insurance from an off-farm source.
The farm households earn most of their income from rice crop, vegetables and from off-farm sources.
(a) Different strategies are represented according to annual household income from livestock, agriculture, conservation and off-farm sources.
The high livestock, low cash group also had large households, with income from livestock, crops and off-farm sources.
From these results, we calculate the predicted probability of the operator having health insurance from off-farm sources holding the spouse's equation constant and vice versa.
The explanatory variables (H O ) and (H S ) are dummy variables representing whether the operator or spouse obtains health insurance coverage from off-farm sources.
While overall few Maasai households earn from wildlife, and the sums they make do not compare with main income streams from livestock, crops and off-farm sources, landowning households close to the MMNR saw real benefits from conservation-based enterprises.
Income from lychee is commonly supplemented with income from other crops or from off-farm sources.
The second largest source was the off farm manufacturing of inputs (∼25%).
As expected, more spouses (30%) reported that they received insurance coverage from an off-farm employment source.
In fact, "the average family farm is forecast to receive 7.6percentt of its household income from farm sources, with the rest from earned and unearned off-farm income," the research service says.
