3.1 | Socio-demographic characteristics
A total of 195 individuals responded to the questionnaire in this study;
41.5 % males and 58.5 % females. About20 % of the respondents were
categorized as Illiterate. Eighty percent of respondents were literates,
and majority of them had primary education (44.1%) and university
education (8.7%). Most of the females (60.5 %) were housewives,
whereas most of the male participants (32.8 %) were self-employed. The
demographic characteristics of the residents in Kerman city have been
described in Table 1.