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)