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<strong>in</strong>puts are held constant. <strong>The</strong> relationship between productivity and family labour availability<br />

was <strong>in</strong>consistent between crops.<br />

5.2.4 Inferential Statistics<br />

A Pearson’s correlation matrix was run <strong>in</strong> order to analyze the relationship between food<br />

security, productivity and wetlands utilization. <strong>The</strong> results are shown <strong>in</strong> Table 6 below.<br />

Food<br />

Security<br />

Index<br />

Wetland<br />

Utilization<br />

Dummy<br />

Ln value <strong>of</strong><br />

Ln<br />

crop<br />

productivity<br />

production<br />

Ln Offfarm<br />

<strong>in</strong>come<br />

Table 6. Pearson Correlation Matrix<br />

Food Security Index correlation 1<br />

Significance<br />

observations 275<br />

Wetland Utilization Dummy correlation 0.1099 1<br />

Significance 0.0688<br />

observations 275 299<br />

Ln productivity correlation 0.1785* 0.1274* 1<br />

Significance 0.0064 0.0441<br />

observations 232 250 250<br />

Ln value <strong>of</strong> crop production correlation 0.3349* 0.1590* 0.8854* 1<br />

Significance 0 0.0118 0<br />

observations 232 250 250 250<br />

Ln Off-farm <strong>in</strong>come correlation 0.1047 0.1658* 0.0896 0.1419* 1<br />

Significance 0.1216 0.0109 0.2059 0.0445<br />

observations 220 235 201 201 235<br />

Source: Primary Data<br />

<strong>The</strong> correlation analysis shows a weakly significant positive relationships between Food Security<br />

and Diversity <strong>of</strong> Wetland Utilization ( r=0.11*,p-value

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