Rationalizing The Irrationality Of Open Defecation Practice Among Households With Toilets In Ogun State, Nigeria

Olapeju, O.O and Majid, M. Rafee (2019) Rationalizing The Irrationality Of Open Defecation Practice Among Households With Toilets In Ogun State, Nigeria. International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies, 6 (6). pp. 62-67. ISSN 2394-4404

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Abstract

Various studies aimed at unravelling the practice of open defecation, the world over, establish lack of toilets as being the major factor responsible for open defecation. However, the reality in most countries like Nigeria where open defecation is still in practice is the fact that people who have toilets in their homes are not precluded from the terrible sanitation culture. The paper is therefore an attempt to investigate latent factors that account for the seeming irrationality of seeking recourse to open defecation when toilets are available. The study is limited to Ogun State, one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Using the multi-stage approach, a total of 165 questionnaires were administered to representative households in the study area. Study founds, among others, that HIEDQU (2), HIEDQU (4)(The dummies of the categorical variables of the highest education attained by respondents), and NRODHT(Neatness of Toilets as the reason households defecate in the open) at significance levels of 0.016, 0.011, 0.10, were the only significant predictors in the logistic regression model. The paper concludes that toilet provisioning without the adoption of holistic infrastructural framework and policy enforcement would not suffice in the quest to eradicating open defecation.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Geography
Depositing User:	Mr Daniel Kumoye
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2020 19:31
Last Modified:	07 Sep 2020 19:31
URI:	http://eprints.federalpolyilaro.edu.ng/id/eprint/1184

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