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table 6.4 (continued)
Researcher-Proposed land-use unit (luu)-level Indicators of Health
and sustainability
classification
Indicator
name
Organization
Organizations
54. Membership in community-
based organizations
Membership
Reciprocity
55. Frequency of exchanges k
Reciprocity
Preferences
Farm
enterprises
56. Prop of common foods
produced in LUU
FoodPdcC
57. Prop of traditional foods
produced in LUU
FoodPdcT
Food
58. Proportion of traditional
foods eaten
FoodEatT
a Number of adults with off-farm employment over total number of persons in LUU
b Maize, beans, potatoes, kale
c Acreage for which a title deed exists over total acreage used by members of the LUU
d Total acreage used by LUU members for farming and dwelling
e Total cash income minus total cash expenditure on farm enterprises
f Total cash income from farm enterprises over the total number of persons in LUU
g Number of non-school-going persons below 19 years of age over total number of persons in LUU
h Proportion of indicator resources controlled by females
i Proportion of indicator resources owned by males
j Nuclear family members only
k Exchange of material and service gifts ( itega ) among LUU
accounted for 6.1% of the total variation in the data, the second 5.5%, the third 4.0%,
the fourth 3.6%, and the fifth and sixth 3.1% and 3.0%, respectively, totaling 25.3%.
Each of dimensions 7 to 34 accounted for between 2.7% and 1.1% of the total varia-
tion, amounting to 45.4%. The principle inertias ranged from 0.101 for dimension
1 to 0.020 for dimension 34, indicating that the dimensions accounted for significant
variability (correlations between the indicators and the scores of these dimensions)
in the data ( p < .05).
Indicators most correlated with the scores of the 34 dimensions are shown in
Table 6.9. The scores of first and fourth dimensions were most correlated with heads
of cattle ( r 2 = 0.53). In dimension 1, the factor loadings (coordinates) decreased with
increasing numbers of cattle per LUU (H [high] = −0.93; L [low] = −0.15, and N
[none] = −1.07). Dimension 4 was a contrast between LUUs with few cattle (L =
−0.44) and those with none (N = 0.88). In this dimension, LUUs with more cattle had
the least inertia (H = −0.08). Dimension 2 was a contrast of LUUs in which nonfarm
income was reported against those that did not respond. The third dimension was a
contrast between LUUs that produced beans and those that did not.
All categories of the 66 indicators were fairly well represented by the 34 dimen-
sions, except the number of sheep and goats (= L with a quality of 0.46). Categories
 
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