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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of survey participants

From: Collecting quantitative experimental data from a non-WEIRD population: challenges and practical recommendations from a field experiment in rural Sierra Leone

Characteristic

Total

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

n

%

n

n

n

n

Participants per group

 Pretest

240

100.0

60

60

60

60

 Posttest

233

97.1

57

59

60

57

Gendera

 Male

117

50.2

29

29

30

29

 Female

116

49.8

28

30

30

28

Estimated age

 18–25

34

14.6

6

12

7

9

 26–35

53

22.7

15

10

15

13

 36–45

63

27.0

11

19

19

14

 46–59

57

24.5

17

12

15

13

 60+

17

7.6

6

4

3

4

 Missing

9

3.9

2

2

1

4

Occupation

 Farmer

183

78.5

50

48

41

44

 Business man/woman

19

8.2

2

2

10

5

 Student

13

5.6

2

6

3

2

 Teacher

7

3.0

1

0

3

3

 Other

11

4.7

2

3

3

3

Education

 No formal education

188

80.7

50

45

54

38

 Primary school

33

14.2

4

10

3

16

 Secondary school

7

3.0

1

2

1

3

 College

5

2.1

2

1

2

0

Religion

 Muslim

164

70.4

44

28

43

49

 Christian

69

29.6

13

31

17

8

  1. aAll characteristics, except ‘participants per group’ refer to data collected during the posttest