General Household Survey 2019

South Africa, 2019

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zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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South African Household Survey Data African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research

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

Data file: zaf-statssa-ghs-2019-household-v1

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Valid: 999

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Yes	318	31.8%
2	No	636	63.7%
3	Clean hands with hand sanitiser or wet wipes	30	3%
4	DO NOT CLEAN HANDS	10	1%
5	Do not know	1	0.1%
8	Not applicable	3	0.3%
9	Unspecified	1	0.1%

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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