Table 1.
Summary statistics for child health outcomes and key WASH indicators
| Percentiles | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Observations | Within-Country Variation (%)a | Mean | 25th | 50th | 75th | |
| Outcomesb | ||||||
| Under-5 mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) | 1,497 | 39.0 | 93.8 | 51.0 | 81.0 | 125.0 |
| Children with diarrhea | 1,547 | 55.6 | 18.8 | 13.0 | 18.0 | 23.9 |
| Children stunted | 1,208 | 40.1 | 35.0 | 25.2 | 35.0 | 44.9 |
| Children with fever | 1,606 | 67.9 | 29.8 | 21.9 | 29.1 | 37.3 |
| WASH Measuresb | ||||||
| Households with any sanitation | 1,548 | 40.0 | 71.9 | 53.3 | 81.2 | 94.7 |
| Households with improved toilet | 1,548 | 63.8 | 31.2 | 4.0 | 22.8 | 51.5 |
| Households with unimproved toilet | 1,548 | 53.8 | 40.7 | 10.6 | 37.3 | 67.5 |
| Households with improved water source | 1,612 | 50.9 | 71.7 | 58.3 | 74.8 | 88.3 |
| Households with any piped water source | 1,612 | 36.0 | 28.0 | 10.1 | 21.5 | 41.0 |
| Households with nonpiped improved water source | 1,612 | 45.6 | 43.7 | 28.9 | 42.8 | 56.8 |
aThis indicator reports the share of total variation in the subnational panel explained by intracountry variation. It is equal to 100 minus the R2 coefficient from a regression of each variable against country-level fixed effects.
bThese variables are all sourced from DHS STATcompiler (USAID and ICF-International 2017), which disaggregates variables at subnational units that we standardize across multiple DHS rounds.