Livelihood resilience in the face of recurring floods: an empirical evidence from Northwest Ethiopia

Geoenvironmental Disasters

Table 5 Exploratory OLS on factors that determine LRI

Explanatory variables
Sex of household head	0.00495
Sex of household head	(0.0128)
Age of household head	0.000716
Age of household head	(0.000569)
Educational status of household head	0.00545^*
Educational status of household head	(0.00212)
Household size	0.00129
Household size	(0.00429)
Supply of labor	0.00657
Supply of labor	(0.00432)
Incidence of illness dummy	−0.00180
Incidence of illness dummy	(0.0112)
Land size in ha	0.0379^**
Land size in ha	(0.0120)
Availability of farm oxen	0.0133
Availability of farm oxen	(0.0133)
Social networks	0.0321
Social networks	(0.0168)
Engagement in trade	0.0425^***
Engagement in trade	(0.0124)
Exposure to flood hazards	−0.0166
Exposure to flood hazards	(0.00996)
_cons	0.283^***
_cons	(0.0344)
N	214
R ²	0.144

Standard errors in parentheses
^* p < 0.05, ^** p < 0.01, ^*** p < 0.001
Source: Authors’ own construction from household survey (April 2015)
Notes:
The exploratory OLS model result has passed all the diagnostic tests such as multi-collinearity tests, omitted variables test, heteroscedasticity test and diagnostic plots to check the normality and linearity assumptions.