Table 1.
Demographic characteristic of informants.
| Variables | Categories | Number |
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| Age | 20-30 | 9 |
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| 31-40 | 17 | |
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| 41-50 | 22 | |
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| 51-60 | 26 | |
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| 61-70 | 19 | |
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| 71-80 | 3 | |
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| Gender / specialist | Male (general) | 72 |
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| Female (general) | 17 | |
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| Male specialist healer | 4 | |
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| Female specialist healer | 3 | |
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| Education level | Illiterate | 17 |
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| 1-5 | 27 | |
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| 6-10 | 22 | |
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| 10-12 | 26 | |
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| >12 | 4 | |
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| Source of knowledge | By parents | 71 |
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| By other | 20 | |
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| Self-experiments | 5 | |
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| Total | 96 | |