Assessment of Edible Woody Plants’ Diversity, Their Threats, and Local People’s Perception in Borecha Woreda of Buno Bedele Zone, Southwestern Ethiopia

Table 2

Educational status, age, and gender of informants.

Parameters	Informant groups	N	Mean ± SD	t-	value
Gender	Male	67	3.28 ± 0.454	1.658	0.102
	Female	38	2.15 ± 0.504
Age	Young members	40	2.25 ± 0.439	−10.269	0.001
	Senior members	65	4.46 ± 0.502
Literacy level	Illiterate	65	4.25 ± 0.501	−10.423	0.001
	Literate	40	2.43 ± 0.423	1.658

95% confidence level and 105 number of respondents (N).