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Hand washing

Hand washing

Period : October 2004
Question : How often do you wash your hands before handling food?


Frequency Male
Number (%)
Female
Number (%)
Overall
Number (%)
All of the time 651 (65.6%) 826 (75.4%) 1 477 (70.8%)
Most of the time 199 (20.0%) 193 (17.6%) 392 (18.8%)
Some of the time 73 (7.3%) 53 (4.8%) 126 (6.0%)
None of the time 5 (0.5%) 1 (0.1%) 7 (0.3%)
Do not handle food 64 (6.4%) 22 (2.0%) 86 (4.1%)
Total 993 (100.0%) 1 095 (100.0%) 2 088 (100.0%)

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