Geography matters for sanitation! Spatial heterogeneity of the district-level correlates of open defecation in India
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10447424" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10447424 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Io1TUS3HQE" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Io1TUS3HQE</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12402" target="_blank" >10.1111/sjtg.12402</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Geography matters for sanitation! Spatial heterogeneity of the district-level correlates of open defecation in India
Original language description
This paper quantitatively analyzes the spatial heterogeneity of district-level correlates of open defecation in rural India. We employ standard non-spatial regression, spatially explicit regressions and multi-scale geographically weighted regression to compare the stability of measurable correlates of open defecation across these different methods as well as across analyzed spatial units. Attributes like ownership of household assets, drinking water inaccessibility and prevalent literacy rates were identified as the most stable district-level correlates of open defecation. Our results also demonstrated the relevance of our hypotheses about (a) possible negative sanitation externalities stemming from the co-concentration of Scheduled Caste communities and other communities in densely populated rural districts, and (b) possible positive sanitation externalities stemming from the co-concentration of Muslim and non-Muslim communities in densely populated districts. Overall, however, our analyses demonstrate notable spatial clustering and significant spatial non-stationarity of examined variables. Therefore, in our opinion, research findings that ignore spatial heterogeneity of sanitation drivers provide incomplete information for policy development and implementation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-10396S" target="_blank" >GA19-10396S: Sustainability of sanitation change in low- and middle-income countries</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
ISSN
0129-7619
e-ISSN
1467-9493
Volume of the periodical
43
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SG - SINGAPORE
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
62-84
UT code for WoS article
000722449200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85119850857