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. 2023 Aug 11;9(8):e19104. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19104

Table 2.

Demographic characteristics of the participants in Meru County.

Variables
Categorical
Description Pooled (N = 226) Male (M), N = 83) Female (M), N = 143) P-Value
Chi-square
Education Diploma 8(3.5) 3(3.6) 5(3.5) 0.89ns
Degree 202(89.4) 75(90.4) 127(88.8)
Postgraduate 16(7.1) 5(6.0) 11(7.7)
Experience 5 years and below 98(43.4) 38(45.8) 60(42) 0.93ns
6-10 7 years 76(33.6) 28(33.7) 48(33.6)
11–15 years 35(15.5) 11(13.3) 24(16.8)
16–20 years 7(3.1) 2(2.4) 5(3.5)

Above 20 years
10(4.4)
4(4.8)
6(4.2)

Continuous
Description
Pooled
Mean
Mean
P-value t-test
Awareness Number of stages a teacher knew 1.60 1.69 1.50 0.374ns
Utilization Number of stages a teacher implemented 3.69 3.80 3.57 0.132ns

Parenthesis is the percentage, ns not statistically significant at 5% level of significance.