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About the National Data
Data
Data Source: Food Safety Survey, FDA
Baseline: 70.0 percent of consumers correctly followed the recommendation to properly clean hands in 2016
Target: 74.0 percent
Numerator
The percent of consumers aged 18 years and older who report they follow the key food safety practice: clean.
Denominator
Number of practices measured among persons aged 18 years and older who prepare food (consumers).
Target-setting method
Percentage point improvement
Target-setting method details
Percentage point improvement from the baseline using Cohen's h effect size of 0.10.
Target-setting method justification
Trend data were not available for this objective. A percentage point improvement was calculated using Cohen's h effect size of 0.1. This method was used because it was a statistically significant improvement from the baseline.
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
(For additional information, please visit the data source page linked above.)
From the 2016 Food Safety Survey:
Numerator:
Before you begin preparing food, how often do you wash your hands with soap? [Asked of those who have a refrigerator and either a stove or microwave.]- All of the time
- Most of the time
- Some of the time
- Rarely
History
Comparable HP2020 objective
Retained, which includes core objectives that are continuing from Healthy People 2020 with no change in measurement.
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.
