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Table 3 Psychosocial measures, their change between 2016 and 2019, and their relationships to the ownership of functional and consistently used toilets

From: The process, outcomes and context of the sanitation change induced by the Swachh Bharat Mission in rural Jharkhand, India

 

2016 (before SBM)

2019 (after SBM)

Change 2016–2019

 

Representation in the sample

Beta coefficient

Standard errors

Representation in the sample

Beta coefficient

Standard errors

Satisfied with current sanitation practice

31%

4.798

0.548**

88%

3.712

0.379**

+ 57%

Willing to pay Rs. 12,000 for SBM-like toilet

46%

0.831

0.446

45%

0.647

0.216**

-1%

Not willing to pay anything for SBM-like toilet

21%

0.171

0.636

31%

-0.954

0.266**

+ 10%

Health benefits acknowledged among toilet advantages

52%

-0.299

0.340

50%

0.995

0.189**

-2%

OD perceived as risk for health

63%

-0.222

0.265

66%

0.754

0.220**

+ 3%

Privacy acknowledged among toilet advantages

51%

0.611

0.353

70%

0.514

0.155**

+ 19%

Comfort acknowledged among toilet advantages

53%

0.082

0.344

86%

0.619

0.269*

+ 33%

Easy access acknowledged among toilet advantages

38%

0.199

0.330

78%

0.294

0.205

+ 40%

Safety acknowledged among toilet advantages

17%

-0.270

0.520

41%

-0.022

0.168

+ 24%

Diarrhoea outbreaks reported among serious threats

50%

-0.136

0.453

17%

0.084

0.220

-33%

Water shortages reported among serious threats

34%

0.600

0.390

28%

-0.666

0.219**

-6%

At least some knowledge on diarrhoea prevention

15%

0.772

0.324*

20%

0.832

0.247**

+ 5%

Proper use of toilet among recalled health and sanitation messages

21%

1.014

0.268**

30%

0.646

0.189**

+ 9%

Proper management of child faeces among recalled health and sanitation messages

1%

0.014

1.010

8%

0.783

0.373*

+ 7%

Stated that majority of other people in his/her village mostly defecate in toilet

6%

1.559

0.516**

75%

0.988

0.187**

+ 69%

Stated that all other people should defecate in toilet

84%

0.371

0.498

87%

0.810

0.194**

+ 3%

Agreed that people in the village think that he/she should defecate in toilet

82%

-0.957

0.386*

90%

0.661

0.259*

+ 8%

N

481

871

 
  1. Notes * Statistically significant at the 0.05 level, ** at the 0.01 level. Based on the binary logistic regressions. Accounted for data clustering. Beta coefficients and standard errors obtained from the binary logistic regression when individual psychosocial predictors separately added into the regression model specified in Table 2