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Existing water and sanitation infrastructure's impact on diarrhea incidents
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I'm a graduate student, who is looking for a data to verify my model. I'm trying to find a detail data on existing water and sanitation infrastructure in a specific area (a municipality level) in developing countries, where there are a detail on infrastructure upgrade/improvement over time. Then, I would like to use this information to relate with how diarrhea incidents evolve over time in that area. How's water and sanitation infrastructure improvement impact the reduction of diarrhea incidents?
Could anyone please help to tell me about what area have the most detail on water and sanitation infrastructure and diarrhea incidents on the existing data? Or any suggestion on how to find these data would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Best,
Pinn]]>pinny2015-03-06T21:22:00-00:00Re: Existing water and sanitation infrastructure's impact on diarrhea incidents
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Usually this is done by merging several datasets. Many DHS surveys (all?) ask where the household gets their water (piped, well, etc). Then, people often bring in external data from some country or region on expansion of water policies/investments, and use that information to instrument for water access by the households in the DHS data. The water availability roll-out data usually has to come from just shoe leather work: google, talks with government people, reading about programs in various countries, etc. But that information (plausibly exogenous roll out of water access) is just something you have to find on your own (otherwise someone probably would have already done it!).
So the basic idea is something like this, for estimating the causal effects of water access on diarrhea (or whatever outcome): external data for an instrument, water access data from the DHS is the first-stage dependent variable, and then diarrhea (or whatever) would be the final outcome in the second-stage.
That help?]]>Reduced-For(u)m2015-03-07T22:27:46-00:00Re: Existing water and sanitation infrastructure's impact on diarrhea incidents
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Liz-DHS2015-03-16T22:45:45-00:00Re: Existing water and sanitation infrastructure's impact on diarrhea incidents
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Miriam King]]>kingx0252018-04-22T00:19:04-00:00