NMICS 2010 Report - Central Bureau of Statistics

NMICS 2010, Mid- and Far Western RegionsAccess to proper basic sanitation is measured by the proportion of the population using an improvedsanitation facility. The MDGs and WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supplyand Sanitation classify households as using an improved sanitation facility if it is an acceptable typeof toilet and is not shared (i.e., an improved sanitation facility is not acceptable if it is shared by twoor more households).Table WS.6 shows that 36 percent of the household population in the MFWR were using animproved sanitation facility that was not shared. Some five percent of households were using animproved toilet facility that was shared by five or fewer households. There was little variation in theuse of an improved sanitation facility that was not shared by region. Subregionally, the highestproportion was in the Mid-Western Mountains (46 percent) and the lowest proportion was in theFar Western Mountains (22 percent). Urban households (56 percent) were more likely to use anunshared improved toilet than rural households (33 percent). Households whose head had at leastsecondary education (49 percent) were more likely to use an unshared improved toilet than thosewhose head had a primary education (29 percent) or no education (31 percent). Households in therichest quintile (64 percent) were much more likely to use an unshared improved toilet than those inthe poorest quintile (13 percent).89