Water and Sanitation Hygiene Practices for Under-Five Children among Households of Sugali Tribe of Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India

Table 3

Reported water (W), sanitation (S), and hygiene (H) practices among household members ().

Drinking water ( (%))	Sanitation ( (%))	Hygiene ( (%))	Hand washing
			Occasion	With soap and water (N (%))	Only water (N (%))
Water supply	Defecation practice	Child body hygiene	When hands are dirty	297 (59.4)	186 (37.2)
Presence of piped water in the house (10 (2.0))	Use of sanitary latrine in the house for defecation by household members (73 (14.6))	Daily bathing (444 (88.8))	After defecation	187 (37.4)	263 (52.6)
Distance of water supply less than 100 meters (461 (92.2))	Use of sanitary latrine in the house for defecation by children (65 (13.0))	Daily changing of clothes (444 (88.8))	Before preparing food	46 (9.2)	417 (83.4)
Water storage	Waste disposal	Daily brushing of teeth (356 (71.2))	Before eating food	38 (7.6)	460 (92.0)
Frequency of cleaning of vessels daily (371 (74.2))	Waste pit away from the house/collected by municipal person (416 (83.2))	Food hygiene	After eating food	5 (1.0)	493 (98.6)
Covering utensils with lid (469 (93.8))		Washing before eating fruits and vegetables (219 (43.8))	After cleaning children	166 (33.2)	286 (57.2)
Do some procedures for making water safe (155 (31.0))		Do not eat raw vegetables (95 (19.0))
Water retrieval
Tap connected to vessel/tank & drawn by vessel with a handle (45 (9.0))