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Table 4 Sociodemographic
of the respondents
Characteristics
Number of
respondents (n = 241)
Percentage
Gender
Male
163
68
Female
78
32
Nationality
Malaysian
219
91
Foreigner
22
9
Age (in years)
Less than 20 years
12
5.00
>20–25 years
112
46.50
>25–45 years
104
43.20
>45–60 years
11
4.60
>60 years
2
0.80
School
Pharmaceutical
sciences
87
36.10
Biological sciences
28
11.60
Chemical sciences
23
9.50
Industrial technology
19
8
Physics
20
8.3
others
64
26.6
Occupation
Undergraduate student 113
46.90
Postgraduate student
61
25.30
Lecturer
38
15.80
Lab assistant
10
4.10
Others
19
7.90
3.4 Awareness on Water Conservation
Based on the given questionnaire to the respondents, we found that the majority
(more than 70%) of respondents reacted positively to the idea of water conservation
as shown in Fig. 3. The respondents declared that they are aware of water conservation
issues. There are a minute amount of respondents, i.e., 1.2% who stated that they
are not aware of water conservation. Awareness of the water conservation issue was
not significantly correlated to respondents occupation (p = 0.463 >0.05, r
2 0.048).
This suggests that awareness of water conservation is seen across different groups
of people.