Table 1.

Characteristics of the three types of vendors

Variables	Types of vendor
	Vegetables	Livestock meat	Wildlife meat
	N = 85	N = 57	N = 35
Age (years), [mean (range)]	37.8 (14–64)	39.9 (22–64)	40.2 (25–65)
Distance from market to home (km) [median (range)]	2 (1–26)	2 (1–9)	2 (1–2)
Years working as vendor a [median (range)]	2 (0.08–30)	10 (0.08–30)	1 (0.08–30)
Ethnic group
Lao Loum	41 (48%)	37 (65%)	18 (51%)
Lao Theung and Lao Sung	44 (52%)	20 (35%)	17 (49%)
Education
No education	20 (24%)	7 (12%)	4 (11%)
Primary school (year 1–6)	44 (52%)	31 (54%)	23 (66%)
Secondary school and above (>year 6)	21 (25%)	19 (33%)	8 (23%)
Trade as main occupation a	16 (19%)	4 (7%)	12 (34%)
If no, main occupation:
Farmer a	13 (81%)	2 (50%)	9 (75%)
Trader	2 (13%)	1 (25%)	3 (25%)
Other	1 (6%)	1 (25%)	0

^a Indicates variables with statistically significant difference between vendor types (α = .05).