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Hand washing

Hand washing

Period : April 2006
Question : How often do you wash your hands before handling food?


Frequency Male
Number (%)
Female
Number (%)
Overall
Number (%)
All of the time 572 (60.5%) 814 (74.0%) 1 387 (67.7%)
Most of the time 214 (22.6%) 202 (18.3%) 416 (20.3%)
Some of the time 115 (12.2%) 59 (5.3%) 174 (8.5%)
None of the time 8 (0.8%) 5 (0.5%) 13 (0.6%)
Do not handle food 37 (3.9%) 21 (1.9%) 58 (2.8%)
Total 946 (100.0%) 1 101 (100.0%) 2 047 (100.0%)

Note: Add-ups may not be equal to total due to rounding.