Administration of Questionnaire Survey
Open and closed ended questionnaires were administered to herd owners to assess potential risk factors of the disease alongside with sample collection. Respondents from each district were randomly selected and interviewed to assess potential risk factors of the disease. Study populations’ sex, age, herd size and district were considered as hypothesized risk factors for the occurrence of FMDV. The questionnaires were interpreted into Afaraf language. Herd owner having cattle were the sampling units for questionnaire survey. Accordingly, herd owners included from three districts in this questionnaire survey were 27 from Asayita, 20 from Dubti and 25 from Chifra, a total of 72 herd owners were interviewed. All necessary epidemiological information was collected tabulated, coded and analyzed using suitable statistical analysis on individual animal bases.