|
Re: Improved water and sanitation variable definitions [message #30085 is a reply to message #30057] |
Fri, 20 September 2024 11:09 |
Janet-DHS
Messages: 885 Registered: April 2022
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
One way to do this is to look at final reports from different phases of DHS. They all include a Chapter 2 table that classifies sources of drinking water into improved and unimproved. For example, I just looked at the reports on the Ethiopia 2005 survey and 2011 survey, which were in DHS-5 and DHS-6. The tables on page 28 and page 14, respectively, give classifications.
DHS does not invent these classifications--they come from the United Nations, specifically WHO. Their classification is the source of the DHS classification.
Also if you look at http://www.statcompiler.com, for the estimates of source of drinking water across sequences of surveys in countries that have had many surveys, such as Ethiopia, Bangladesh, and Nigeria (there are many more) I believe you will find something about the classification.
|
|
|