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Table 3 Hygiene equipment and practices

From: Evaluating housing quality, health and safety using an Internet-based data collection and response system: a cross-sectional study

 

Respondents

Confidence interval 95%

 

N

%

Lower Bound (%)

Upper Bound (%)

Drinking water supply

    

Municipal water supplies

1110

85.6

83.7

87.5

Own well

125

9.7

8.1

11.3

Have noticed unusual taste or something else in the drinking water

140

10.8

9.1

12.5

Water supply disruptions, due to

    

Repair work

267

22.9

20.5

25.3

Faults in the water system

68

6.1

4.7

7.5

Cleaning tasks performed weekly or more often

    

Taking trash out

1259

99.6

99.3

99.9

Laundry

1225

96.7

95.7

97.7

Vacuuming

1167

91.3

89.8

92.8

Seen signs of

    

Rodents indoors

98

7.5

6.1

8.9

Insects (herculean ant etc.) indoors

137

10.4

8.7

12.1