An assessment of mobile phone-based dissemination of weather and market information in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Table 3 Kruskal–Wallis equality-of-populations rank test

Category	Rank sum	Category	Rank sum	Category	Rank sum
Total sample
Female	3695	Non-poor	6728.5	Young	11,418.5
Male	20,615	Poor	17,581.5	Old	12,891.5
Chi² (1)	0.25	Chi² (1)	0.055	Chi² (1)	0.614
Prob > Chi²	0.6174	Prob > Chi²	0.8148	Prob > Chi²	0.4331
Chi² with ties (1)	0.547	Chi² with ties (1)	0.12	Chi² with ties (1)	1.348
Prob > Chi²	0.4594	Prob > Chi²	0.7287	Prob > Chi²	0.2456
Lawra district
Female	179	Non-poor	663.5	Young	1317
Male	2377	Poor	1892.5	Old	1239
Chi² (1)	0.762	Chi² (1)	0.042	Chi² (1)	2.212
Prob > Chi²	0.3828	Prob > Chi²	0.8377	Prob > Chi²	0.137
Chi² with ties (1)	1.342	Chi² with ties (1)	0.074	Chi² with ties (1)	3.895
Prob > Chi²	0.2468	Prob > Chi²	0.7857	Prob > Chi²	0.0484
Jirapa district
Young	1317	Female	2189	Non-poor	3193
Old	1239	Male	8986	Poor	7982
Chi² (1)	2.212	Chi² (1)	0.404	Chi² (1)	0.033
Prob > Chi²	0.137	Prob > Chi²	0.5248	Prob > Chi²	0.856
Chi² with ties (1)	3.895	Chi² with ties (1)	1.031	Chi² with ties (1)	0.084
Prob > Chi²	0.0484	Prob > Chi²	0.31	Prob > Chi²	0.7721

H ₀: ratings (of the level of usefulness of mobile phone-based weather and market information) within a category are similar

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