Table 4.
Number of Participants Who Reported the Practice of Burning Household Waste in Their Neighborhood and Estimated Population Exposed to the Risk of Burning Household Waste
| Locality | Samplea | Burning | % Practicing Burningc | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yesb | No | Exposedd | Totale | |||
| Omdurman | 74 | 64 | 10 | 86.5 | 662,148 | 765,609 |
| Jabal Awliya | 10 | 8 | 2 | 80.0 | 1,125,004 | 1,406,254 |
| Khartoum Bahri | 248 | 189 | 59 | 76.2 | 692,328 | 908,452 |
| Khartoum | 471 | 344 | 127 | 73.0 | 697,043 | 954,382 |
| Um Badda | 27 | 19 | 8 | 70.4 | 1,037,609 | 1,474,497 |
| Sharg En Nile | 14 | 9 | 5 | 64.3 | 832,766 | 1,295,414 |
| Six localities | 844 | 633 | 211 | 74.6 | 5,046,899 | 6,804,608 |
Notes: aTotal number of participants per locality who address the question related to burning household waste. bNumber of participants who reported that household waste was burnt in their respective neighborhood. cPercentage practicing waste burning obtained as 2/1 x 100. dPopulation exposed to the risks related to burning household waste. It was obtained as 5 x 3/100. eTotal population of 2022 per locality obtained by projecting the 2008 census population of the concerned locality in using the formula Pop2008 x (1+2.9/100)14 where 2.9/100 was Sudan population growth rate and 14 was the number of years between 2008 and 2022.