O.I.  Oladele, M.A.  Antwi, A.E.  Kolawole, 
    Perceived Social Impacts of Disease Outbreak among Livestock Farmers along Border Villages of South Africa and Namibia,
    Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances,
    Volume 12,Issue 2,
    2013,
    Pages 168-172,
    ISSN 1680-5593,
    javaa.2013.168.172,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2013.168.172)
    Abstract: This study examines the perceived social impacts of disease 
  outbreak among livestock farmers along border villages of South Africa and Namibia. 
  This was due to the high volume of trans-boundary activities particularly with 
  respect to animals. The Northern Cape shares boundary with Namibia. The population 
  of study is all livestock producers in border villages along Northern Cape provinces, 
  a mix of purposive and random sampling were used to select 140 respondents for 
  the study. Data were collected through the use of questionnaires, on farmers 
  personal and farm characteristics and farmers perceived social impacts of disease 
  outbreak. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze farmers personal and farm 
  characteristics. Regression analysis was used to determine the relationship 
  between livestock farmers’ perceived social impacts of disease outbreak 
  and other study variables. The results show that 32% of the livestock farmers 
  fall within the age 61 years and above 83.6% of the farmers are male, 56.4% 
  of the farmers are married; most of the farmers are literate, 67.9% of the respondents 
  have less than five dependents, 97.9% of the farmers have livestock based farming 
  system, 70% reported that they have no contact with extension agent, 89.3% have 
  access to market. Significant determinant of perceived social impacts of disease 
  outbreak are marital status (t = 3.753), farm size (t = -1.82), farming experience 
  (t = -1.836).
    Keywords: Perception;social impacts;disease outbreak;livestock farmers;farm