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Table 3 Occurrence of eight chiropractic-related terms by South African provinces

From: The prevalence of chiropractic-related terminology on South African chiropractors’ webpages: a cross-sectional study

 

Province

Subluxation n (%)

Adjust(-ing/-ment)

n (%)

Holism(-tic) n (%)

Alignment n (%)

Vital(-ism/-istic) n (%)

Wellness

n (%)

Manipulate(-ion)

n (%)

Innate intelligence

n (%)

Total

n (%)

95% confidence interval (Score (Wilson) method)

Lower CL

Upper CL

 

GP

47 (20.4)

381 (34.5)

21 (15.1)

78 (35.5)

0 (0.0)

57 (17.6)

180 (29.5)

2 (100.0)

766 (29.1)

27.4

30.8

KZN

61 (26.4)

234 (21.2)

45 (32.4)

42 (19.1)

0 (0.0)

70 (21.6)

145 (23.7)

0 (0.0)

597

(22.7)

21.1

24.3

WC

79 (34.2)

381 (34.5)

65 (46.8)

76 (34.6)

1 (100.0)

130 (40.1)

210 (34.4)

0 (0.0)

942

(35.8)

34.0

37.6

EC

38 (16.5)

70 (6.3)

6 (4.3)

15 (6.8)

0 (0.0)

64 (19.8)

39 (6.4)

0 (0.0)

232

(8.8)

7.8

10.0

NW

0 (0.0)

3 (0.3)

1 (0.7)

1 (0.5)

0 (0.0)

2 (0.6)

3 (0.5)

0 (0.0)

10

(0.4)

0.2

0.7

NC

0 (0.0)

2 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

2

(0.1)

0.0

0.3

FS

1 (0.4)

2 (0.2)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

4 (0.7)

0 (0.0)

7

(0.3)

0.1

0.6

MP

0 (0.0)

9 (0.8)

1 (0.7)

2 (0.9)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

6 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

18

(0.7)

0.4

1.1

LP

5 (2.2)

24 (2.2)

0 (0.0)

6 (2.7)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.3)

24 (3.9)

0 (0.0)

60

(2.3)

1.8

2.9

TOTAL

231 (8.8)

1106 (42.0)

139 (5.3)

220 (8.4)

1 (0.0)

324 (12.3)

611 (23.2)

2 (0.1)

2634 (100.0)

 

95% confidence interval (Score (Wilson) method)

Lower CL

7.8

40.1

4.5

7.4

0.0

11.1

21.6

0.0

 

Upper CL

9.9

43.9

6.2

9.5

0.2

13.6

24.9

0.3

  1. These numbers include multiple occurrences on each website
  2. GP Gauteng, KZN KwaZulu Natal, WC Western Cape EC Eastern Cape, NW North West, NC Northern Cape FS Free State MP Mpumalanga LP Limpopo