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Table 16 Correlation between age of informants and ethnobotanical knowledge

From: Ethnobotanical investigation of medicinal plants in Buska Mountain range, Hamar district, Southwestern Ethiopia

Multiple Comparisons

Dependent Variable: Ethnobotanical knowledge

Tukey HSD

Age categories

Age categories

Mean difference

Std. error

Sig

95% confidence interval

Lower bound

Upper bound

20–35

36–65

− 3.333*

0.385

0.000

− 4.51

− 2.15

66–88

− 7.333*

0.385

0.000

− 8.51

− 6.15

36–65

20–35

3.333*

0.385

0.000

2.15

4.51

66–88

− 4.000*

0.385

0.000

− 5.18

− 2.82

66–88

20–35

7.333*

0.385

0.000

6.15

8.51

36–65

4.000*

0.385

0.000

2.82

5.18

  1. * The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level