Table 4.

Percentage of respondents reporting handling (by various) people, health checking and grooming at differing frequencies

	N	Never	Less than once a month	Approx monthly	Approx weekly	Most days	Daily
Picked up and handled by respondent	1246	2.2	6.7	5.6	18.0	21.3	46.3
Picked up and handled by other adults	1239	24.1	15.1	9.6	20.0	15.3	16.0
Picked up and handled by children under 10	1241	72.0	9.2	3.5	7.4	3.2	4.8
Picked up and handled by children 11-18	1241	65.7	7.2	4.8	8.5	5.4	8.5
Groomed	1243	23.9	15.2	17.5	26.6	93	7.6
Inspected to check the length of nails	1242	5.3	12.9	32.4	35.4	7.5	6.4
Inspected to check the length of teeth	1232	11.5	25.4	29.6	26.3	3.9	3.9