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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Hindus are less likely to use a toilet than Muslims in India -Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

Hindus are less likely to use a toilet than Muslims in India -Michael Geruso and Dean Spears

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published Published on Mar 28, 2018   modified Modified on Mar 28, 2018
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Data reveals 25% of Hindus who own toilets don’t use them, only 10% of Muslims do the same.

Far from his dwelling let him remove urine and excreta –The Laws of Manu (a Hindu sacred text), Chapter 4 verse 151

More than half of the Indian population, over 600 million people, defecate in the open, without the use of a latrine or toilet. The prevalence of open defecation (hereafter OD) is particularly high among India’s Hindu majority. Data from the most recent wave of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) of India show that as of 2005, 68% of Hindu households defecate in the open—e.g., in fields, near streets, or behind bushes. In comparison, only 43% of the relatively poorer Muslim households do so.

To investigate these patterns in more detail, we turn briefly to the Sanitation Quality, Use, Access, & Trends survey, which was collected by one of this study’s authors in rural northern India in 2013 and 2014. Unlike our main analysis dataset, the NFHS, this survey was specifically designed to elicit preferences over latrine use. We use it here to provide a clearer context and understanding of the stark demand differences we exploit below.

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ThePrint.in, 27 March, 2018, https://theprint.in/governance/hindus-are-less-likely-to-use-a-toilet-than-muslims-in-india/44959/


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