5. Empirical results and discussion
5.1. Determinants of household participation in community forest
management
One of the key objectives of the current analysis was to identify and
analyze the factors that are likely to influence households to participate
in a community forest management program. The probit model is
employed to identify the determinants of the participation in community
forest activities and the results are presented in Table 2. The overall
model (LR χ2) is highly significant (at the less than 1% level) with a R2
value of 0.19, hence indicating the robustness of the variables included
in themodel. The dependent variable is a dummy i.e. 1 if the household
participates in the community forest activities and 0 otherwise. A set of
independent variables are included in the model