Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Table 2 Summary statistics of variables

From: Functional diversity of home gardens and their agrobiodiversity conservation benefits in Benin, West Africa

Explanatory variables	Levels	Humid-region	Sub-humid region	Semi-arid region	Whole sample
Gender	Female	29	42	89	160
Gender	Male	79	76	45	200
Age categories	Young	12	17	22	51
	Adult	63	66	89	212
	Old	27	31	28	86
Education level	Unedu	15	39	45	131
	PScho	31	55	44	130
	Second+	15	38	45	99
Management	Single	33	50	80	163
Management	Multiple	75	68	54	197
Dependent variables
Agrobiodiversity	m ± se	10.29 ± 0.59	11.15 ± 0.59	9.25 ± 0.43	10.18 ± 0.31
Crops	m ± se	6.86 ± 0.38	7.42 ± 0.38	7.11 ± 0.32	7.14 ± 0.21
Crop wild relative	m ± se	0.56 ± 0.07	0.31 ± 0.04	0.5 ± 0.06	0.45 ± 0.03
Wild plant species	m ± se	2.86 ± 0.31	3.42 ± 0.33	1.64 ± 0.14	2.59 ± 0.16

Unedu uneducated people, PScho basic school (primary school or alphabetization), Second+ secondary school or more, Single single manager, Multiple multiple manager, m mean, se standard error

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