Design and descriptive epidemiology of the Infectious Diseases of East African Livestock (IDEAL) project, a longitudinal calf cohort study in western Kenya

Table 5 Descriptive statistics for farmer’s demographic variables

	N*	Frequency	Percent**
Sex of house head	548
Male		370	69
Female		178	31
Education level of house head	544
None		81	14.9
Primary education		337	61.9
Secondary education		126	23.2
University education		0	0
Technical training	541
No		415	76.7
Yes		126	23.3
Main occupation	544
Farmer		469	86.2
Teacher		6	1.1
Civil servant		11	2
Business		22	4.1
Retired with pension		14	2.6
Other		22	4

*Not all the farmers responded to the questions in the questionnaires and N notes the number of respondents to the particular question.
**The proportions are calculated using the number of respondents to the question.

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