Table 2.
Variables | % of Children (n=7,019) |
---|---|
High-risk WASH practices | |
Drinking unsafe water | 6.13 |
Open defecation | 11.13 |
Absence of handwashing place | 56.95 |
Water collection time ≥ 30 min | 41.30 |
Two-week prevalence of diarrhea | 24.08 |
WASH Resource Index | |
WASH poorest | 6.11 |
WASH poorer | 38.60 |
WASH middle | 26.18 |
WASH richer | 19.61 |
WASH richest | 9.50 |
Wealth quintiles | |
Poorest | 23.13 |
Poorer | 23.17 |
Middle | 20.39 |
Richer | 17.93 |
Richest | 15.38 |
Region | |
Kampala | 5.86 |
Central 1 | 9.69 |
Central 2 | 10.42 |
East Central | 11.25 |
Eastern | 17.02 |
North | 9.18 |
Karamoja | 3.82 |
West-Nile | 5.90 |
Western | 14.64 |
Southwest | 12.21 |
Type of residence | |
Urban | 14.06 |
Rural | 85.94 |
Maternal education | |
No education | 14.42 |
At least some primary | 63.61 |
At least some secondary | 18.36 |
Higher | 3.61 |
Age of children | |
Less than 12 months | 22.09 |
12–23 months | 19.99 |
24–35 months | 20.14 |
36–47 months | 19.32 |
48–59 months | 18.47 |
Sex of children | |
Male | 49.88 |
Female | 50.12 |
WASH, water, sanitation, and hygiene.