Table 1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants.
Characteristic | Level | Frequencies (N = 416) |
Percentages (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Sex | Female | 211 | 50.7 |
Male | 205 | 49.3 | |
Age Range | 5–15 | 26 | 6.3 |
(Years) | 16–35 | 272 | 65.4 |
36–60 | 107 | 25.7 | |
>60 | 11 | 2.6 | |
Marital Status | Cohabiting | 2 | 0.5 |
Married | 256 | 61.5 | |
Single | 160 | 38.5 | |
Education level | Primary | 72 | 17.3 |
Intermediate | 77 | 18.5 | |
Secondary | 63 | 15.1 | |
Higher Education | 66 | 15.9 | |
Illiterate | 138 | 33.2 | |
Religion | Christian | 356 | 85.6 |
Muslim | 56 | 13.5 | |
Others | 4 | 1.0 | |
Occupation | Butcher | 3 | 0.7 |
Business/Trader | 15 | 3.6 | |
Nurse/Midwife | 4 | 1.0 | |
Housewife | 35 | 8.4 | |
Student | 120 | 28.8 | |
Restaurant worker | 29 | 7.0 | |
Veterinary | 5 | 1.2 | |
Farmer | 9 | 2.2 | |
Jobless | 40 | 9.6 | |
Others | 156 | 37.5 | |
Ethnic Grouping | Nilotic | 179 | 43.0 |
Lou | 47 | 11.3 | |
Equatorian | 19 | 4.6 | |
Bantu | 93 | 22.4 | |
Arab | 24 | 5.8 | |
Fur | 42 | 10.1 | |
Falata | 8 | 1.9 | |
Others | 4 | 1.0 | |
Knowledge about zoonotic diseases | No | 371 | 89.2 |
Yes | 45 | 10.8 |