Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants and their utilization by the people of Soro District, Hadiya Zone, southern Ethiopia

Table 3 Statistical test of significance using one-way ANOVA on the average number of ethnoveterinary medicinal plants reported among various variables on the data collected from Soro District

Participants	Informants group	N	Average ± SD	F value	P value
Gender	Males	255	4.59 ± 3.55	13.62	0.000*
Gender	Females	132	3.29 ± 1.37	13.62	0.000*
Age category	Young (20–35 years old)	94	3.77 ± 2.47	1.36	0.257**
	Adult (36–59 years old)	197	4.22 ± 2.70
	Elderly (≥ 60)	96	5 ± 3.44
Educational status	Illiterate	145	4.12 ± 2.27	3.88	0.050*
Educational status	Literate	242	4.43 ± 3.16	3.88	0.050*
Proximity to the main town	Less than 5 km	86	4.20 ± 2	4.06	0.045*
Proximity to the main town	Greater or equal to 5 km	301	4.34 ± 3.06	4.06	0.045*
Informants’ category	Key informants	91	8.22 ± 4.70	352.32	0.000*
Informants’ category	General informants	296	2.46 ± 1.17	352.32	0.000*
Agroclimatic zone	Dega	107	3.19 ± 3.63	2.20	0.112
	Woinadega	213	2.98 ± 4.77
	Kola	67	1.84 ± 4.33

*Significant difference (P < 0.05) at 95% conference interval for mean between groups
** non-significant (p>0.05), t (0.05, two tailed)
df = N − 1; 386, N = number of respondents = 387

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