Table 3.
Access to drinking water and handling practice at point of use in rural Dembiya at the baseline (May 2017) and endline (May 2018), northwest Ethiopia.
| Variables | Baseline |
Endline |
Percent point change | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Percentage of households with children under 5 who had access to protected water sources | 166 (73.8) | 245 (81.1) | 7.3 | <.05 |
| Percentage of households with children under 5 who had stored drinking water in clean storage containers in clean area | 26 (11.6) | 188 (62.3) | 50.7 | <.001 |
| Percentage of households with children under 5 who had properly covered drinking water storage containers | 78 (34.7) | 210 (69.5) | 34.8 | <.001 |
| Percentage of households with children under 5 who had not withdrawn water from the storage containers by dipping | 208 (68.9) | 280 (92.7) | 23.8 | <.01 |
| Percentage of households with under 5 children who had treated water at household level | 17 (7.6) | 142 (47.0) | 39.4 | <.001 |
| Percentage of households with under 5 children who practiced good drinking water handling | 15 (6.7) | 176 (58.3) | 51.6 | <.001 |