General Household Survey 2022

South Africa, 2022

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Use of soap to wash hands after defecation (san_wash)

Data file: ghs-2022-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Rinse hands with water	176	17.6%
2	Wash hands with soap and water	781	78.1%
3	Clean hands with hand sanitiser or wet wipes	32	3.2%
4	DO NOT CLEAN HANDS	5	0.5%
5	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
8	Not applicable	6	0.6%
9	Unspecified	0	0%

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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