Table 5 Participants’ knowledge according to hen's egg purchase practices.

From: Knowledge and handling practices for raw hen's eggs during purchase, preparation, storage, and consumption: a cross sectional study

Variables

 

n

mean ± sd

P value

Do you usually buy the hen's egg for your house?

Yes I usually do it by myself

85

0.07 ± 0.94

0.964

I do sometimes

146

0.13 ± 1.05

No I don’t buy the egg, family member do that

319

0.09 ± 1.02

Get the egg from chicken farm

27

0.12 ± 1.08

Source of the hen’s egg?

Neighboring groceries

368

0.13 ± 1.03

0.747

Neighboring farms

21

0.06 ± 0.92

Hypermarket

161

0.05 ± 1.0

Directly from producers

27

0.047 ± 1.02

Amount of hen’s eggs purchased

 < 10 eggs/time

43

0.15 ± 0.99

0.241

10–20 eggs/time

180

 − 0.03 ± 1.03

20–30 eggs/time

354

-0.16 ± 1.4

  1. *significant p < 0.05 using one way ANOVA test.