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Table 5 Knowledge of forage plants based on the characteristics of respondents from five villages

From: Changes in traditional ecological knowledge of forage plants in immigrant villages of Ningxia, China

Characters

Total number of respondents

Average kinds of the forage plants mentioned

p value

Gender

  

4844.385, df = 1

0.000

 Male

165

45.153

  

 Female

150

37.612

  

Age range

  

10789.559, df = 3

0.000

 ≤ 19

28

15.196

  

 20–39

85

42.472

  

 40–59

127

49.826

  

 ≥ 60

75

51.352

  

Education Level

  

1758.473, df = 3

0.002

 Illiteracy

128

52.440

  

 Primary

119

39.951

  

 Middle

49

42.831

  

 Higher

19

22.529

  

Occupation

  

984.535, df = 6

0.013

 Village heads

12

64.750

  

 Farmers

244

43.630

  

 businessmen

5

52.600

  

 Migrant workers

19

37.488

  

 Village doctors

5

45.800

  

 Students

23

17.417

  

 Other else

7

47.571

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