Cross-cultural comparison of plant use knowledge in Baitadi and Darchula districts, Nepal Himalaya

Table 4 Analysis of deviance of three types of use reports (MUR, OUR, UUR) in response to livelihood, ethnicity, gender, occupation, education, language spoken, and availability of food in generalized linear model fit with Poisson coefficients

Explanatory variables (categorical)	Factors	MUR		OUR		UUR
Explanatory variables (categorical)	Factors	Mean	p	Mean	p	Mean	p
Livelihood	Baitadi/sedentary (suburban, hill) (57)	6.75	< 0.001***	8.92	< 0.001***	2.06	0.99
Livelihood	Darchula/semi-nomadic (rural, mountain) (43)	8.69	< 0.001***	2.88	< 0.001***	2.04	0.99
Access to opportunity	Privileged (Brahmin, Chhetri) (72)	7.40	0.27	7.38	< 0.001***	2.24	0.045*
Access to opportunity	Underprivileged (Byanshi, Dalit) (28)	8.07	0.27	3.60	< 0.001***	1.60	0.045*
Gender	Male (68)	7.59	0.99	6.72	0.023*	2.26	0.49
Gender	Female (32)	7.58	0.99	5.49	0.023*	2.36	0.49
Occupation	Healers (77)	7.79	0.17	5.83	< 0.001***	1.99	0.79
Occupation	Non-healer (23)	6.91	0.17	7.99	< 0.001***	2.02	0.79
Languages spoken	≤ 2 (81)	7.46	0.36	6.99	< 0.001***	2.26	0.51
Languages spoken	> 2 (19)	8.10	0.36	5.72	< 0.001***	2.07	0.51
Education	Non-literate (51)	7.78	0.47	6.03	0.23	2.09	0.043*
Education	Literate (49)	7.38	0.47	6.63	0.23	1.78	0.043*
Food availability	< 6 months (72)	7.51	0.65	6.36	0.84	2.04	0.75
Food availability	> 6 months (28)	7.78	0.65	6.25	0.84	2.14	0.75

***Highly significant, **Moderately significant, *Low significant, > 0.05 Non-significant (Ns)

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