For the tens of thousands of farmers? loan financing, it?s imperative to find
which features are the key indicators affecting the credit scoring of rural
households. In this paper, C5.0, CHAID and C&RT three models are used to
screen the key indicators affecting farmers? credit scoring, and 2044
farmers? microfinance data from 28 provinces in China are applied in the
empirical study. The empirical results show the classification accuracy of
C5.0 is better than CHAID and C&RT in both the training set and test set,
thus finally use the feature subset selected by C5.0. Six key features
screened from 44 attributes by C5.0, which have significant influence on
credit scoring of farmers, namely, education level, net income each year/per
capita GDP, education cost of children each year, Residence type,
residential year, relationship with cosigners.