Table 4

Sample Plot Characteristics, 1999

	All (n = 2,004)		Shaanxi (n = 560)		Gansu (n = 755)		Sichuan (n = 689)
	Mean	St. Dev.	Mean	St. Dev.	Mean	St. Dev.	Mean	St. Dev.
Plot Characteristics
Plot size (ha)	0.15	0.17	0.22	0.21	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.18
1999 net income/ha (RMB)	4,473	10,260	2,312	6,445	3,830	6,647	6,935	14,628
Distance
To nearest road (km)	0.76	1.34	0.82	1.18	0.82	1.65	0.65	1.03
To nearest gully/ditch (km)	1.03	2.19	1.44	2.85	1.07	2.24	0.66	1.25
To home (km)	0.88	1.08	0.97	0.87	0.91	1.11	0.76	1.17
Share of Plots (%)
Enrolled in the SLCP	27.3		47.9		17.9		20.9
Affected by a disaster in 1999^{^a}	24.6		62.0		9.0		11.2
With slope
25°	37.6		48.6		19.2		48.9
15°–25°	14.4		18.9		10.2		15.2
<15°^b	48.0		32.5		70.6		35.8
With land quality
High	32.8		25.4		44.5		26.1
Medium	29.1		34.3		26.8		27.4
Low	38.1		40.4		28.7		46.4
Irrigated with
Surfacewater	12.5		2.7		14.0		18.9
Groundwater	1.4		0.7		2.5		0.9
Other	1.4		0.0		1.2		2.9
No irrigation	84.6		96.6		82.3		77.4
That are
Private land	6.1		3.9		2.9		11.5
Responsibility or ration land	81.2		74.5		90.3		76.6
Contract land	8.2		17.9		5.2		3.8
Other^c	4.4		3.8		1.6		8.1

↵a Defined as an exogenous negative production shock, including drought, flood, severe insect infestation, windstorm, and hail.
↵b Includes paddy and terraced fields, which comprised 5.8% of the plots in the sample.
↵c Includes developed wasteland, and land transferred into or out of the household.