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Ernest Guevarra

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2024-04-11

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2024-04-12

Source: vignettes/washdata.Rmd
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-Water and Sanitation for the Urban -Poor (WSUP) +

Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)

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WSUP is a not-for-profit company -that helps transform cities to benefit the millions who lack access to -water and sanitation. WSUP believes -that access to safe and affordable water, improved sanitation and -improved hygiene practices underpin poverty reduction through impacts on -health, education and livelihoods. This is coupled with a conviction in -two core principles. Firstly, WSUP -believes in the transformative power of markets and innovation: enormous -strides can be made by bringing the local and international private -sector into the urban WASH space, by driving business thinking in -low-income service provision, and by viewing low-income people as -consumers who make choices. Secondly, WSUP understands that the dynamising -power of markets can only partially solve the problem: deep political -commitment, institutional change, and a functioning WASH sector are -equally critical. Sustainable at-scale progress in urban WASH will only -be achieved if political leaders prioritise government investment and +

WSUP is a not-for-profit company that helps transform cities to +benefit the millions who lack access to water and sanitation. WSUP +believes that access to safe and affordable water, improved sanitation +and improved hygiene practices underpin poverty reduction through +impacts on health, education and livelihoods. This is coupled with a +conviction in two core principles. Firstly, WSUP believes in the +transformative power of markets and innovation: enormous strides can be +made by bringing the local and international private sector into the +urban WASH space, by driving business thinking in low-income service +provision, and by viewing low-income people as consumers who make +choices. Secondly, WSUP understands that the dynamising power of markets +can only partially solve the problem: deep political commitment, +institutional change, and a functioning WASH sector are equally +critical. Sustainable at-scale progress in urban WASH will only be +achieved if political leaders prioritise government investment and policy change, and if WASH service providers are assisted to radically enhance their capacity to deliver effectively on that investment.

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Background to the citywide surveys

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In order to measure sustained universal coverage in urban areas of WSUP programme countries4, WSUP will be conducting citywide surveys +

In order to measure sustained universal coverage in urban areas of +WSUP programme countries4, WSUP will be conducting citywide surveys in one selected city for each of our six programme countries in early 2017 and early 2020. These citywide surveys will collect data allowing service levels across the entire city to be characterised, while also allowing more detailed data to be collected in areas of the city of -particular interest to WSUP. These -surveys are intended to generate useful information for others working -in the sector including the municipality, regulator and local -utilities.

+particular interest to WSUP. These surveys are intended to generate +useful information for others working in the sector including the +municipality, regulator and local utilities.

In support of these citywide surveys, Valid International has been contracted to provide technical support with the design of the citywide surveys, with particular focus on the technical design of variable density sampling approaches that enable a general characterisation of the entire city, while allowing higher-resolution -data to be obtained in areas of specific WSUP interest. This should be achieved -while minimising the sample size as far as possible provided that it -retains the ability to generate statistically significant +data to be obtained in areas of specific WSUP interest. This should be +achieved while minimising the sample size as far as possible provided +that it retains the ability to generate statistically significant conclusions.

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-WSUP information requirements and -other survey design considerations +

WSUP information requirements and other survey design +considerations

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    WSUP would like to be able to -report findings that are representative for three specific populations -of interest:

    +

    WSUP would like to be able to report findings that are +representative for three specific populations of interest:

    • The general city-wide population;
    • Low income/poor population within the city; and,
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      mapping. However, most of this work on poverty mapping have results of low resolution (i.e., poverty is mapped down to district level only) and rarely present poverty mapping at smaller units of a city.

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      As for WSUP-identified populations -of interest specifically populations who live in areas within the city -where WSUP provides interventions, -the challenges are similar in identifying who these populations are and -determining the area in the city where they can be located. Whilst -locating the general areas where beneficiaries of WSUP interventions live can be -relatively simple, knowing the full and specific extent of where they -are located in the city can be difficult given that they may not -necessarily fall neatly into known administrative units/boundaries.

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      An additional issue with having a focus on WSUP-supported areas is that it has -additional sample size requirements especially if the purpose of -drilling down on these focused areas is to report on experience and -satisfaction of users of WSUP -services and interventions (which is what is indicated in our -preliminary review of the questionnaire) specifically. We think that to -get such information requires a different approach to data collection -and cannot be easily nested within a bigger cross- sectional -requirements without complicating the whole process with .

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      As for WSUP-identified populations of interest specifically +populations who live in areas within the city where WSUP provides +interventions, the challenges are similar in identifying who these +populations are and determining the area in the city where they can be +located. Whilst locating the general areas where beneficiaries of WSUP +interventions live can be relatively simple, knowing the full and +specific extent of where they are located in the city can be difficult +given that they may not necessarily fall neatly into known +administrative units/boundaries.

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      An additional issue with having a focus on WSUP-supported areas is +that it has additional sample size requirements especially if the +purpose of drilling down on these focused areas is to report on +experience and satisfaction of users of WSUP services and interventions +(which is what is indicated in our preliminary review of the +questionnaire) specifically. We think that to get such information +requires a different approach to data collection and cannot be easily +nested within a bigger cross- sectional requirements without +complicating the whole process with .

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      The type of indicators that WSUP would like to assess through the +

      The type of indicators that WSUP would like to assess through the survey and the questionnaire that is to be used to collect information to calculate these indicators will also influence to some extent the design of the survey. Hence, they are factors to consider at design @@ -351,18 +346,18 @@

      different categories of interest to which members of the household belong to.

      The questionnaire also indicate that most likely majority of the -indicators that WSUP needs to be -reported are proportion-type of indicators and mostly based on -respondents’ self-report with most questions requiring a yes/no answer -whilst some require responding based on a scale7 which are used for -eliciting satisfaction from services that accessed and/or provided. The -questionnaire doesn’t require measurements to obtain data (numerical -data) but a module on poverty assessment8 uses a numeric scoring -scale to produced/report an index score for a household that is then -used to assess the level of wealth/poverty of the household. Given that -majority of the indicators are proportion- type, sample size -calculations will take this into account.

      +indicators that WSUP needs to be reported are proportion-type of +indicators and mostly based on respondents’ self-report with most +questions requiring a yes/no answer whilst some require responding based +on a scale7 which are used for eliciting satisfaction +from services that accessed and/or provided. The questionnaire doesn’t +require measurements to obtain data (numerical data) but a module on +poverty assessment8 uses a numeric scoring scale to +produced/report an index score for a household that is then used to +assess the level of wealth/poverty of the household. Given that majority +of the indicators are proportion- type, sample size calculations will +take this into account.

      Finally, it should be noted that by nature, indicators on access to water and sanitation services are highly clustered. That is, source of drinking water or type of sanitation facility tend to be delivered or @@ -375,15 +370,15 @@

      be factored in when estimating sample size.

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      WSUP would like to have as -much spatial disaggregation of the results across the city as possible -as this will provide more nuanced information for the organisation with -regard to variances in service provision and access throughout the city -which can in turn help guide programme development, beneficiary -targeting and programme implementation. At the minimum, WSUP would like to be able to report +

      WSUP would like to have as much spatial disaggregation of the +results across the city as possible as this will provide more nuanced +information for the organisation with regard to variances in service +provision and access throughout the city which can in turn help guide +programme development, beneficiary targeting and programme +implementation. At the minimum, WSUP would like to be able to report results specific to the three main populations of interest mentioned above and ideally have an even finer breakdown of results across the -low-income/poor groupings and the WSUP-supported communities.

      +low-income/poor groupings and the WSUP-supported communities.

      This requirement has implications on the sample size (both overall and at each level of disaggregation) hence should be taken into account. The general rule is, the finer the resolution of results needed, the @@ -396,7 +391,7 @@

      Survey designWSUP plans to survey.

      +WSUP plans to survey.

      Sample Universe

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      Sample Universe

    • A representative sample from identified low-income/poor areas of the city, assessing the same indicators

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    • A representative sample from one or more WSUP-identified areas of interest, -either for previous work locations or proposed future locations, again -assessing the same indicators

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    • A representative sample from one or more WSUP-identified areas of +interest, either for previous work locations or proposed future +locations, again assessing the same indicators

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Sample frameWSUP-identified areas of interest either +

The third grouping are WSUP-identified areas of interest either based on previous work locations or proposed future locations. These are even more localised areas and are often not clearly delineated geographically. This will require work to delineate and map these areas @@ -508,8 +503,8 @@

Sample frameWSUP-identified areas of interest with -resources available.

+desirability of having results specific to WSUP-identified areas of +interest with resources available.

Each of these levels of spatial stratification will have their own diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index d16b684..a699d1b 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -89,14 +89,14 @@

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This package contains four datasets from an urban water and sanitation survey in Dhaka, Bangladesh conducted by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor with technical support from Valid International in March 2017.

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This package contains four datasets from an urban water and sanitation survey in Dhaka, Bangladesh conducted by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor with technical support from Valid International in March 2017.

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This survey in Dhaka is one of a series of surveys to be conducted by WSUP in various cities in which they operate including Accra, Ghana; Nakuru, Kenya; Antananarivo, Madagascar; Maputo, Mozambique; and, Lusaka, Zambia. This package will be updated once the surveys in other cities are completed and datasets have been made available.

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This survey in Dhaka is one of a series of surveys to be conducted by WSUP in various cities in which they operate including Accra, Ghana; Nakuru, Kenya; Antananarivo, Madagascar; Maputo, Mozambique; and, Lusaka, Zambia. This package will be updated once the surveys in other cities are completed and datasets have been made available.

Installation

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Feedback, bug reports and feature requests are welcome; file issues or seek support here. If you would like to contribute to the package, please see our contributing guidelines.

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This project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.