Poverty transition through targeted programme: the case of Bangladesh Poultry Model

Variable description___________________________________________________________

Mean

Std.

Deviation

ed1, Median years of schooling of household members > 7 yrs of age

5.32

2.87

edu, Education of beneficiary women (yrs of schooling)

4.08

3.07

depart , dependency ratio = no of persons (below 15 and above 60)/no of

.49

.44

persons (15-60 years of age)

adult , no of persons 15+ years

3.08

1.37

adultm, no of males 15+ years

1.62

.94

adultf, no of females 15+ years

1.46

.71

famS, family size

4.17

1.54

Age_median, median age of family workers in the family

36.98

10.36

fhead, beneficiary female who is also head of the family

.08

.28

D11, beneficiary gained from training, accessed to information/knowledge

.05

.22

Farm size (own land acres)

.40

.61

lnyield, productivity of land (revenue per acre in Tk) in log

2.59

4.45

credit, access to micro credit = 1

.80

.40

lnBasset, value of business assets (Tk) in log

2.05

3.64

lnlstk, value of livestock asset (Tk) in log

7.85

2.18

Distance from market (km)

1.03

.83

Distance from metallic road (km)

.62

1.05

D1, marital status of beneficiary women (single=1 )

.13

.33

D3 , households having international migrant member

.07

.25

D10 , households having member with regular job

.24

.43

D8, households sold livestock due to shock reasons

.22

.41

Length of time (yrs) in the programme

9.74

6.23

nonaglD, households having non-farm wage labour

.10

.30

infoS, households having membership with more than one organisations

.52

.50

Active = 1, who are still active in the programme

.49

.50

D12, households who fulfil targeting criteria of land<=0.5 acres

.78

.42

Gpara, location dummy

.35

.48

Tilli, location dummy

.13

.34

Jagir, location dummy

.05

.21

Nobo, location dummy

.07

.25

Dighi, location dummy

Valid N (listwise) = 400

.07

.25