From: Medicinal plants used by women from Agnalazaha littoral forest (Southeastern Madagascar)
Number of people interviewed | Percentage of total | Utilize medicinal plants (#) | Percentage of total | Do not utilize medicinal plants (#) | Percentage of total | ||
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Gender | Females | 301 | 60.44 | 280 | 93.02 | 21 | 6.98 |
Men | 197 | 39.56 | 171 | 86.8 | 26 | 13.2 | |
Age group | [15-19] | 35 | 7.03 | 16 | 45.73 | 19 | 54.27 |
[20–29] | 84 | 16.87 | 73 | 86.91 | 11 | 13.09 | |
[30–39] | 111 | 22.29 | 105 | 94.59 | 6 | 5.41 | |
[40–49] | 117 | 23.49 | 115 | 98.29 | 2 | 1.71 | |
[50–59] | 104 | 20.88 | 100 | 96.15 | 4 | 3.85 | |
[60 +] | 47 | 9.44 | 42 | 89.36 | 5 | 10.64 | |
Level of | Illiterate | 328 | 65.9 | 316 | 96.34 | 12 | 3.66 |
Education | Primary | 143 | 28.7 | 118 | 82.52 | 25 | 17.48 |
Secondary | 24 | 4.8 | 16 | 66.53 | 8 | 33.47 | |
University | 3 | 0.6 | 1 | 33.33 | 2 | 66.67 | |
Marital status | Single | 105 | 21.1 | 80 | 76.21 | 25 | 23.79 |
married | 384 | 77.1 | 368 | 95.83 | 16 | 4.17 | |
widowed | 9 | 1.8 | 3 | 33.07 | 6 | 66.93 | |
Household | <80,000 | 371 | 74.5 | 349 | 94.07 | 22 | 5.93 |
Education (monthly income in Ariary) | 80,000-160,000 | 123 | 24.7 | 99 | 80.49 | 24 | 19.51 |
>160,000 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 74.9 | 1 | 25.1 |