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Table 2 The extent to which REPU in the energy-mix strategy would solve households power poverty challenges, ESPP, based on demographic variables

From: Investigating the role of subsistence renewables in alleviating power poverty within Nigeria’s energy-mix strategy

Covariates

VIF

Level

Effect size (ES)

Wald (p-value)

Present job cadre

2.508

Junior staff (ref.)

  

Middle management

4.370 (1.144–16.691)

4.653 (0.031)*

  

Senior management

6.998 (1.774–27.602)

7.722 (0.005)**

  

Academics

1.302 (0.016–105.074)

0.014 (0.906)

Job position

2.627

Technologist (ref.)

  

engineer

1.719 (0.399–7.407)

0.528 (0.468)

  

Manager

1.803 (0.398–8.178)

0.584 (0.445)

  

General manager

0.855 (0.097–7.534)

0.020 (0.888)

  

Executive director

7.803 (0.686–88.726)

2.743 (0.098)

Years of experience

1.350

 < 5 years (ref.)

  

6–10 years

1.037 (0.314–3.425)

0.004 (0.953)

  

11–15 years

1.076 (0.273–4.245)

0.011(0.917)

  

16–20 years

0.468 (0.055–3.944)

0.488 (0.485)

  

 > 20 years

0.029 (0.002–0.403)

6.936 (0.008)**

Highest educational qualification

1.884

OND (ref.)

  

HND

0.782 (0.235–2.603)

0.161 (0.688)

  

B.Sc

0.376 (0.087–1.625)

1.715 (0.190)

  

M.Sc

1.052 (0.195–5.682)

0.003 (0.953)

  

Ph.D

0.100 (0.008–1.269)

3.153 (0.076)

Capacity development gathering in the past 2 years

1.507

Workshop

2.005 (0.019 -211.378)

0.086 (0.770)

  

Conferences

2.245 (0.018–278.738)

0.108 (0.742)

  

Seminars

7.891 (0.074–846.393)

0.750 (0.386)

  

Workshop + seminar

5.068 (0.036–715.399)

0.413 (0.520)

  

Workshop + conferences + seminars + training

6.795 (0.049–934.159)

0.582 (0.446)

  

Workshop + training (ref.)

Energy training in the past 2 years

1.818

Technical

0.022 (0.001–0.966)

3.912 (0.048)*

  

Policy

0.012 (0.000–0.795)

4.269 (0.039)*

  

Management

0.023 (0.001–0.984)

3.875 (0.049)*

  

Policy + technical

0.065 (0.002–2.791)

2.027 (0.155)

  

Technical + management

0.392 (0.007–21.600)

0.210 (0.647)

  

Technical + policy + management (ref.)

  1. Effect sizes of energy experts' opinions; ref. denotes reference category; p-values for the ES that are statistically significant are denoted with asterisks (< 0.05 *; < 0.01 **; < 0.001 ***; 0.0001 = ****)