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. 2020 Aug 17;103(4):1726–1734. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0551

Table 2.

Sanitation classification according to JMP sanitation ladder

n %
Safely managed sanitation services* 330 67.9
Basic sanitation services 16 3.3
Limited sanitation services 31 6.4
Unimproved sanitation services§ 93 19.1
Open defecation 16 3.3
Total 486 100
*

Use of improved facilities which are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed in situ or transported and treated off-site.

Use of improved facilities which are not shared with other households.

Use of improved facilities shared between two or more households.

§

Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform, hanging latrines, or bucket latrines.

Disposal of human feces in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water, beaches, and other open spaces or with solid waste.