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Hand washing

Hand washing

Period : April 2015
Question : How often do you wash your hands before handling food?


Frequency Male
Number (%)
Female
Number (%)
Overall
Number (%)
All of the time 1 333 (66.7%) 1 725 (76.5%) 3 058 (71.9%)
Most of the time 409 (20.5%) 391 (17.4%) 800 (18.8%)
Some of the time 168 (8.4%) 94 (4.2%) 263 (6.2%)
None of the time 20 (1.0%) 13 (0.6%) 33 (0.8%)
Do not handle food 69 (3.5%) 27 (1.2%) 97 (2.3%)
Unknown/Missing/Outliers 0 (0.0%) 3 (0.1%) 3 (0.1%)
Total 1 999 (100.0%) 2 254 (100.0%) 4 253 (100.0%)

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