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Description of questions | Mopani District | Vhembe District |
N | % | N | % |
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Where do you usually buy or obtain the salt that is used for food in your house? |
Purchase in a shop such as Pick ‘n Pay, Shoprite, Spar, and general store | 135 | 67.5 | 124 | 78 |
Agricultural coarse salt obtained from a farmer, employer, cooperation, or elsewhere | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.6 |
Spaza shop | 59 | 29.5 | 18 | 11.3 |
Informal sector: street vendor or hawker and a bag of maize meal | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8.2 |
Directly from a salt producer | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1.3 |
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Where do you get salt if the salt used at school ran out before the service provider delivers the next batch? |
Buy at a nearby shop/Spaza | 15 | 7.5 | 3 | 1.9 |
Fetch salt at home | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 |
Do not add salt | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.6 |
Never run out of salt | 182 | 91 | 15 | 96.9 |
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Do you add more salt to your food because the salt is iodated? |
Yes | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 |
No | 122 | 61 | 67 | 42.1 |
Do not know | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1.9 |
Do not know what iodated salt is | 59 | 29.5 | 89 | 56 |
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Do you have any concerns about iodine being added to table salt? |
Yes | 17 | 8.5 | 3 | 1.9 |
No | 107 | 53.5 | 50 | 31.4 |
Unsure | 13 | 6.5 | 20 | 12.6 |
Do not know what iodine is | 63 | 31.5 | 86 | 54.1 |
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In what kind of container do you store salt in the kitchen? |
Plastic bag in which the salt was bought | 82 | 41 | 56 | 35.2 |
Carton box | 7 | 3.5 | 25 | 15.7 |
Rigid plastic container with holes at the top | 50 | 25 | 11 | 6.9 |
Open porcelain, wooden, plastic, or metal container with or without a lid | 61 | 30.5 | 67 | 42.1 |
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How do you know the salt is Iodised? |
Plastic bag/container with iodised salt written on it | 50 | 25 | 47 | 29.6 |
Salt having brown colour | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1.9 |
Salt with pure white colour | 34 | 17 | 27 | 17 |
Do not know | 112 | 56 | 82 | 51.6 |
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When do you add iodised salt to food? |
While cooking | 101 | 50.5 | 71 | 44.6 |
Start cooking with salt | 90 | 45 | 88 | 55.3 |
While eating | 3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 |
Do not know | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
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