Knowledge, attitudes and practices on African tick bite fever of rural livestock communities living in a livestock-wildlife interface area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Table 3 Association of selected factors/characteristics of the respondents and being bitten by ticks in Caquba and Lucingweni in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

Factor	Number of respondents	Bitten by ticks (%)	P-value
Locality
Caquba	22	21 (95.5)	< 0.001*
Lucingweni	15	2 (13.3)	< 0.001*
Sex
Male	21	15 (71.4)	0.183
Female	16	8 (50.0)	0.183
Age
18–25	5	1 (20.0)	0.082^a
26–45	17	12 (70.6)
46–65	11	6 (54.5)
66 and above	4	4 (100)
Level of education
Primary and below	16	11 (68.8)	0.471
Secondary and above	21	12 (57.1)	0.471
Day to day activities
Primarily indoors	27	16 (59.3)	0.710^a
Primarily outdoors	10	7 (70.0)	0.710^a

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