Table 2.

Smith's salience indexes (Smith's S) for seven most salient fed small ruminant feeds for farmer categories

Feed item		Smith's salience (S)
	All farmers	Village		Sex		Lineage		Status
		Kasei	Kobriti	Male	Female	Patri	Matri	Higher	Lower
Maize grain	0.678*	0.796*	0.441*	0.729*	0.586*	0.607*	0.766*	0.660*	0.695*
Cassava peels	0.468*	0.444*	0.514*	0.414*	0.562*	0.427*	0.518*	0.454*	0.481*
Margaritaria discoidea	0.422*	0.381*	0.503*	0.466*	0.342	0.426*	0.416*	0.479*	0.364*
Ficus umbellata	0.261	0.312*	0.159	0.252*	0.276	0.261	0.261	0.340*	0.182
Banana leaves	0.207	0.28	-	0.245	0.139	0.123	0.312	0.328*	0.086
Cassava leaves	0.152	0.104	0.25	0.154	0.15	0.133	0.177	0.113	0.191
Yam peels	0.145	0.181*	0.072	0.108	0.209*	0.107	0.192*	0.167	0.115

* Items with an asterisk belong to the consensus model of feeds fed within the group represented by the column

- The feed item in the row was not mentioned by the farmer category represented in the column