Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of demographic characteristics (N = 426) and percentage-based representation of target population.
| Sample representatives |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Category | N | Percentage | Target population (in million), % of representation in the sample |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 236 | 55 | 1.95, .012 |
| Female | 190 | 45 | 0.55, .035 |
| Age | |||
| Young | 306 | 72 | 2.0, .015 |
| Middle aged | 108 | 25 | 0.43, .025 |
| Old aged | 12 | 03 | 0.07, .017 |
| Residence | |||
| Rural | 90 | 21 | 0.72, .012 |
| Urban Municipal | 190 | 45 | 0.95, .020 |
| Metropolitan City | 146 | 34 | 0.83, .017 |
| Educational qualification | |||
| UG | 113 | 27 | 2.0, .005 |
| PG | 239 | 56 | 0.28, .085 |
| PG Above | 74 | 17 | 0.02, .370 |
UG, undergraduate; PG, post-graduate; PG-above, MPhil/PhD/any higher degree