Table 4.

HIV/AIDS affected and non-affected comparison in gathering frequency, orchids known and number of household gatherers

	HIV/AIDS affected households (gatherers) (n = 111)	Non-HIV/AIDS affected households (gatherers) (n = 113)
Variable
Gathering frequency	3.20 (1.9) *	2.25 (1.6) *
No. of wild orchid known	2.6 (0.9) ns	2.4 (0.9) ns
Number of gatherer in a household	2.9 (1.5) ns	3.3 (1.8) ns

* Significant at P = 0.05; number in parenthesis are standard deviations' means the mean difference is not significant; p > 0.05;number in parenthesis are standard deviations