Socio-cultural and behavioural factors constraining latrine adoption in rural coastal Odisha: an exploratory qualitative study

Table 1 Overview of focus group discussions, participant characteristics and latrine ownership and type

Number	Focus group type	Latrine type owned	Gender	Number of participants	Village	FGD date
1	NGO field staff (4 NGOs)	-na-	Men	8	-na-	1 Jul 2011
2	SHG members (6 SHGs)	GOI subsidised, improved & not improved	Women	12	#1-5	2 Jul 2011
3	Married, high (Brahmin) caste	Self-financed	Women	9	#6	5 Jul 2011
4	Married, high (Brahmin) caste	Self-financed	Men	7	#6	5 Jul 2011
5	Newly married young, low (Scheduled) caste	GOI subsidised, not improved	Women	6	#7	3 Jul 2011
6	Married, Low (Scheduled) caste	GOI subsidised, not improved	Men	7	#7	3 Jul 2011
7	Married, general caste	GOI subsidised, Improved	Women	8	#8	6 Jul 2011
8	Married, general caste	GOI subsidised, improved	Men	8	#8	6 Jul 2011
9	Married, tribal	GOI subsidised, improved	Women	6	#9^a	9 Jul 2011
10	Married, tribal	GOI subsidised, improved	Men	7	#9^a	9 Jul 2011
11	Unmarried adolescent^b, lower castes	none	Women	7	#10	29 Sep 2012
12	Unmarried adolescent^b, mixed castes	none	Men	7	#10	29 Sep 2012
	Total			95	10

^aThe sanitation programme in this village was implemented by Gram Vikas, a well-respected and long-standing NGO acclaimed for their contributions to the water and sanitation sector. They specialise in a unique and very successful integrated water and sanitation approach to promoting village-wide individual household latrines coupled with simultaneous delivery of a new piped water system comprising a yard, bathroom, and latrine tap for each household
^bAges were 17 to 21

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