WASH in households dataset (from the Joint Monitoring Programme database). June 2019

This dataset compromises all country files included in the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) global database (https://washdata.org/data/household, downloaded June 2019).

It includes:

Country: ISO 3 code + Complete name

Service: Water or Sanitation

Setting: Urban or Rural

Source: Category of the household survey

Year: Date of the household survey

X₁, X₂ and X₃: percentage of the population using…

• In Water: X₁ all improved drinking water sources; X₂ piped drinking water sources and X₃ no drinking water facility (surface water).
• In Sanitation: X₁ all improved sanitation facilities; X₂ improved sanitation facilities connected to sewers and X₃ no sanitation facilities (open defecation).

The dataset is used in the following paper:

Ezbakhe, F. and Pérez-Foguet, A. (2019) Estimating access to drinking water and sanitation: The need to account for uncertainty in trend analysis. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133830

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133830