# **<u>Table 1: Key parcel level variables</u>**

||**Total**|**Free**|**hold**|**Tenure typ**<br>**Customary**|**e**<br>**_Mai_**|**_lo_**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**1. Land rights**|||||||
|Sell without approval (%)|51.5|58.1|*|50.1|54.4|*|
|Sell with outside approval (%)|20.9|11.5|***|25.9|8.0|***|
|Rent without approval (%)|60.3|69.6|**|60.1|58.3||
|Rent with outside approval (%)|13.4|5.4|***|16.6|5.7|***|
|Give without approval (%)|57.0|63.5|*|56.5|56.9||
|Give with outside approval (%)|18.7|9.5|***|23.4|6.7|***|
|Plant timber trees without approval (%)|74.6|75.7|*|81.4|52.8|***|
|Plant timber trees with outside approval (%)|4.8|4.1||5.2|3.7||
|Number rights without approval|2.4|2.7||2.5|2.2|***|
|Number rights with outside approval|0.6|0.3|***|0.7|0.2|***|
|**2. Mode of acquisition and parcel characteristics**|||||||
|Parcel purchased (%)|27.5|36.5|***|24.1|35.6|***|
|Parcel inherited from husband's family (%)|43.0|30.4|***|50.6|22.7|***|
|Parcel inherited from wife's family (%)|6.7|6.1||6.9|6.3||
|Parcel rented-in (%)|19.3|21.6|**|15.3|31.3|***|
|Parcel area in acres|1.8|2.1||1.9|1.4|***|
|Distance from house in minutes|20.1|16.5||22.3|14.2|***|
|Years possessed|17.2|14.2|***|18.4|14.4|***|
|Good land quality (%)|34.5|35.1||36.3|28.6|***|
|Fair land quality (%)|49.5|51.4||49.7|48.1||
|Flat land (%)|56.1|50.0|***|63.8|33.3|***|
|Gently sloped land (%)|33.8|40.5|***|25.5|57.9|***|
|Rainfed (%)|97.2|97.3|*|97.3|96.5|***|
|Swamp/Wetland (%)|1.3|0.7||1.5|0.8||
|**3. Land related improvements and land values**<sup>**1**</sup>|||||||
|Dummy: planted trees during the past 5 years (%)|27.4|41.2|***|25.4|29.9|**|
|Number of trees planted during the past 5 years per acre|29.9|25.1||32.8|24.1||
|Dummy: parcel has tree crops (%)|46.0|66.2|***|41.9|52.8|***|
|Number of trees per acre|47.0|32.3||52.4|39.2||
|Practiced soil conservation (%)|24.9|31.8|**|23.1|28.4|**|
|Hypothetical value of land per acre (US $)|717.9|607.9||548.4|7826.3|***|
|Hypothetical rental price per acre (US $)|34.4|65.1|***|28.7|156.2|***|
|**4. Crop production and input use per acre**|||||||
|Total value of crop production per acre (US $)|117.7|149.8||109.7|133.6||
|Dummy: used purchased seed (%)|50.3|39.1|***|53.6|42.8|***|
|Dummy: used purchased chemical fertilizer (%)|1.2|1.8||1.2|0.7||
|Dummy: used purchased pesticides (%)|4.2|6.4||4.1|3.6||
|Dummy: used hired labor (%)|32.4|30.0||34.6|25.2|***|
|Value of purchased seed per acre (US $)|6.6|5.2|**|6.6|7.1|***|
|Value of purchased chemical fertilizer per acre (US $)|4.0|0.4||5.2|0.8||
|<br>Value of purchased pesticides per acre (US $)|6.1|6.5|*|6.9|2.5||
|<br>Value of hired labor per acre (US $)|19.2|16.1||19.2|21.1|***|
|<br>Banana on parcel (%)|32.3|64.6|***|23.9|49.2|***|
|Root crops on parcel (%)|49.5|75.6|***|38.5|77.3|***|
|Fruit crops on parcel (%)|9.2|32.3|***|4.0|18.9|***|
|Vegetables onparcel(%)|2.4|3.1||2.2|2.8||
|Number of observations|2185|148||1546|489||

<u>1 Land sales values are only for owners but not for renters.</u>

* significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1% for the t-statistic to test the equality of group means using customary tenure as a reference group.  Note that 26.4 % and 93.5 % of the parcels under freehold and _mailo_ tenure systems are respectively occupied by tenants. _Source:_ Own computation from 2004 WB/Makerere/FASID land tenure survey.

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