General Household Survey 2024

South Africa, 2024

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Use of soap to wash hands after using toilet (san_wash)

Data file: ghs-2024-hhold-v1

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Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 16

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Rinse hands with water	183	18.3%
2	Wash hands with soap and water	799	79.9%
3	Clean hands with hand sanitiser or wet wipes	13	1.3%
4	DO NOT CLEAN HANDS	4	0.4%
5	DO NOT KNOW	0	0%
8	Not applicable	1	0.1%
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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