Assessment of physical facilities and detection of post-mortem lesions in public abattoirs in selected districts of Wolaita zone, Ethiopia

Table 8 Levels of agreement among focus groups by proportional piling (priority rank) on the association of grossly visible lesions with production parameters

	Proportional piling of mean weighted score of the association Postmortem pathology to beef production parameter
Beef production parameter	Cystic	Caseous/abscess	Fibrotic	Mineralized/ Calcified	Overall weighted score
Beef production parameter	1st Prior	2nd prior	3rd prior	4th prior	Mean rank score	Test statistics
Cattle > 6 years old		0.17	0.5	0.33	5.17	N = 12 Kendall’s W = 0.524 Chi-Square = 31.423 Df = 5 Asymp. Sig = 0.0001
Cattle type (bull, dairy, heifers)	0.8			0.09	2.33
Bull type (castration)	0.5	0.17	0.17	0.09	5.17
Cattle sex			0.08	0.36	3.04
Cattle breed	0.25	0.33		0.27	3.08
Cattle origin (market source)	0.17	0.33	0.25	0.18	2.21

HF: Holstein Friesian, JC: Jersey cross; the importance on postmortem lesion rating is score 1 to 4 where 1 is less important and 4 more important based on the frequency of pathology detection per head of slaughter cattle up on postmortem inspection,
*Kendall’s W = coefficient of concordance (the evidence of agreement between informant group was categorized as “weak” for W < 0.26 and p > 0.05; “moderate” for W = 0.26–0.38 and p < 0.05; and strong for W > 0.38 and p < 0.01 according to the published guidelines on the interpretation of W and p-value (Siegel and Castellan, 1988 Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.) McGraw-Hill)

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