Khat consumption difference between South and North

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In all Somalia, 36.4% of respondents reported khat intake in the week previous to the interview (99% CI 19.3%–57.7%; see Table 3), with the highest levels of all in Bay/Bakol and Mogadishu South (69.4%, 99% CI 64.5%–74.2% and 61.4%, 99% CI 57.0%–65.8%). The estimates for the northern and southern/central part of the country did not differ (26.2%, 99% CI 14.6%–42.5% versus 50.7%, 99% CI 28.9%–72.2%). However, excessive khat use and its related effects seem to be more frequent in southern/central Somalia: consumption of more than two “bundles” per day in the previous week was less frequent in the northern part than in southern/central Somalia (4.0%, 99% CI 3.1%–5.2% versus 28.9%, 99% CI 9.6%–60.9%). Also in this region a greater number of respondents reported more than one sleepless night due to khat chewing in the week prior to the interview (14.5%, 99% CI 11.1–18.5 versus 64.5%, 99% CI 56.1–72.1); but habitual consumption in a solitary setting was not significantly different between regions (11.6%, 99% CI 7.6%–17.4% versus 18.2%, 99% CI 8.9%–33.6%). The self-reported, quantitative information about individual khat chewing in the week before the interview follows the same trend (see Table 4): khat chewing respondents reported that they consumed on average 9.8 “bundles” (SE = 2.1, 99% CI 2.0–17.5) and had 1.7 sleepless nights due to chewing khat in the previous week (SE = 0.4, 99% CI 0.1–3.3). Again, the differences in the reported number of sleepless nights due to khat use in the previous week between northern and southern/central Somalia were evident (0.7, 99% CI 0.6–0.9 versus 2.4, 99% CI 1.8–3.0) but not significant with respect to the consumed quantity (5.7, 99% CI 4.7–6.6 versus 12.7, 99% CI 4.9–20.6). On a regional level, we found the largest consumed quantities (expressed in bundles) in the samples in Mogadishu South (including Lower Shabelle and the “Km 50 Airport,” where many khat-delivering planes land daily: 15.9, 99% CI 14.4–17.5) and in Kismayo (including Lower and Middle Juba; 20.8, 99% CI 18.0–23.6), the two regions closest to the Kenyan border, from where the largest quantity of khat imports arrive. Figure 1 displays graphically the differences between the north and central/southern Somalia.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121109/




The sexy, handsome hyena strikes again, walle waraabe is a credit to his race (isaaq race)

[Inaayah]

I wasn't aware Isaaq was a race.

That's new to me.

[mahoka]

I wasn't aware Isaaq was a race.

That's new to me.

good that you are learning it then, i am proud to provide you with education


professor mahoka

[COOL-MAN]

Glad they stopped it in the UK

[Inaayah]

London Bus drivers and Khaat maxaa kala hayey.

High on the job.

[original dervish]

Next you'll be trying to convince us that the Irish are really teetotalers,

[mahoka]

Next you'll be trying to convince us that the Irish are really teetotalers,

can't hate on neutral imperial evidence. We are not in the kacaan anymore

[AGENT447]

Waraabe always coming through with his Hyena Office of statistics and Bantu Studies shyt

[Advo]

OP is probably high on khat right now

[mahoka]

OP is probably high on khat right now

i am not a southerner sxb

[mahoka]

Waraabe always coming through with his Hyena Office of statistics and Bantu Studies shyt

this hutu said we eat qat more then them several times, had to bring out the stats on his west african chromosomes

[thegoodshepherd]

Puntland apparently has the lowest rate of khat use. Probably due to the distance from both Kenya and Ethiopia.

[nord]

I wasn't aware Isaaq was a race.

That's new to me.

[Unionist]

LMAO Waraabe I gave you some facts to disprove yet here you are posting the same shit somewhere else.

[TheblueNwhite]

OP is probably high on khat right now