Bat consumption in Thailand

Figures & data

Fig. 1 Map of selected areas for the study.

Table 1 Allocation of study respondents by type and province

	Provinces
Types of respondents	Ratchaburi	Sakaeo	Nakorn Sawan	Phitsanulok	Total
Guano mine manager	2	1	1^a	2	6
Guano miners^b	10	5	8	6	29
Guano miners’ spouses^b	7	2	6	4	19
Guano dryers or packagers	3	0	1	1	5
Owners of shops selling guano	1	0	1^a	1	3
Guano users	2	1	1	1	5
Total	25	9	17	15	67

^aThis respondent was the same person (the mine manager and owner of the shop); ^bin practice, the categories of miners and spouses were not mutually exclusive. During interviews with spouses, we learned that both husbands and wives often work in guano mines. In these cases, we interviewed the spouses both as miners and as spouses of miners, but classified them as spouses in the table above to avoid double-counting.