Part-I: Demographics
Geographic patterns of study sample across various districts of Sindh
province was created using ArcGIS 10.8, the responses were recorded from
23 major district of Sindh Pakistan. 66.3% of participants were from
rural areas and 34.7% of the participants from urban areas. Highest
number of responses were recorded from Larkana (20.93%) followed by
Mirpurkhas (13.30%) and Hyderabad (12.27%, Fig.1). The majority of the
respondent were male (n= 561, 72.5%) female (n= 210, 27.1%) and (n=
03, 0.041%) transgender were recorded. Age of participants were divided
into five groups, highest number of responses were from youngest peoples
age group 21-30 year (n= 435, 56.2%) 16-20 (n= 167, 21.6%), 31-40 (n=
114, 14.7%), 41-60 (n= 48, 6.2%) and lowest responses from older
peoples above 60 (n= 10, 1.3%). In marital status 3 peoples did not
showed their marital status while singles were (n= 545, 70.4%), married
(n= 224, 28.9%) and 3 (0.4%) were divorced. Education was the main
indicator of the present study respondent education qualification was
divided into five categories among all categories highest responses from
graduates (n= 414, 53.5%) followed by secondary (n= 124, 16%),
postgraduate (n= 99, 12.8%), Illiterate (n= 72, 9.3%) and Primary (n=
65, 8.4%). Most of the participants were students (n= 434, 56.1%),
labourer were (n= 94, 12.1%) and govt employee were (n= 87, 11.2%). In
religious column most of the responses were from Muslim’s (n= 589,
76.1%), Hinduisim (n= 181, 23.4%) and Christian were (n= 3, 0.4%).
Most of the respondents were from lower income position (n= 490, 63.3%)
earns only less than 20,000PKR per month (Table.1)