Table 4 Variable definitions and descriptive statistics.
Variable | Variable names | Definition | Mean | Standard deviation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Explained variable | Grain Production Resilience (GPR) | Calculated by the entropy weight method | 0.288 | 0.138 |
Explanatory variable | Proportion of Financial Support for Agriculture (FSA) | The proportion of fiscal expenditure on agriculture, forestry, and water affairs to the total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery | 0.249 | 0.323 |
Planting Structure% (PS) | The proportion of grain crop sowing area to non-grain crop sowing area | 3.051 | 3.969 | |
Changes in Agricultural Product Production Prices% (API) | Agricultural Product Production Price Index | 101.608 | 19.782 | |
Regional market size in billions of yuan (lnRMS) | Total retail sales of consumer goods in logarithmic form | 8.373 | 1.239 |
