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Table 2 Smith's salience indexes (Smith's S) for seven most salient fed small ruminant feeds for farmer categories

From: Small ruminant feed systems: perceptions and practices in the transitional zone of Ghana

Feed item

 

Smith's salience (S)

 

All farmers

Village

Sex

Lineage

Status

  

Kasei

Kobriti

Male

Female

Patri

Matri

Higher

Lower

Maize grain

0.678*

0.796*

0.441*

0.729*

0.586*

0.607*

0.766*

0.660*

0.695*

Cassava peels

0.468*

0.444*

0.514*

0.414*

0.562*

0.427*

0.518*

0.454*

0.481*

Margaritaria discoidea

0.422*

0.381*

0.503*

0.466*

0.342

0.426*

0.416*

0.479*

0.364*

Ficus umbellata

0.261

0.312*

0.159

0.252*

0.276

0.261

0.261

0.340*

0.182

Banana leaves

0.207

0.28

-

0.245

0.139

0.123

0.312

0.328*

0.086

Cassava leaves

0.152

0.104

0.25

0.154

0.15

0.133

0.177

0.113

0.191

Yam peels

0.145

0.181*

0.072

0.108

0.209*

0.107

0.192*

0.167

0.115

  1. * Items with an asterisk belong to the consensus model of feeds fed within the group represented by the column
  2. - The feed item in the row was not mentioned by the farmer category represented in the column