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Table 4 SBM-related psychosocial variables measured in 2019 only 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

 

Representation in the sample

Beta coefficient

Standard errors

Remembered sanitation-related activities organized in her/his village during SBM

31%

0.576

0.184**

Attended village meeting about hygiene and sanitation behaviour during SBM implementation

22%

0.742

0.166**

Knew how does double-pit system worked

53%

0.895

0.193**

Planned to reuse pit content as fertilizer

32%

0.810

0.215**

Was unhappy about contributing so much time and energy to toilet construction

16%

-1.083

0.274**

Would prefer OD if not forced to use toilet

13%

-1.327

0.235**

Found difficult to get water for toilet

24%

-1.249

0.245**

Stated that nothing happens to people who are spotted when practicing OD in her/his village

33%

-0.333

0.148*

Agreed that majority of people in her/his village work together towards the common goal of making the village clean

14%

1.243

0.347**

  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