Interviewer instructions
Question 36 is to determine the type of toilet facility used in the household and record the main one in the space provided.
-Flush toilet: A flush toilet or water closet (WC) is a toilet that disposes of human waste by using water to flush it through a drainpipe to another location. It uses a cistern or holding tank for flushing water. The concept of flushing is the criteria and the forms are: -
-A sewer system is an artificial conduit (or pipe) or system of conduits used to remove sewage (human liquid waste) and to provide drainage.
-A septic tank is a single-story, watertight, on-site treatment system for domestic sewage, consisting of one or more compartments, in which sanitary flow is detained. Septic tanks have limited use in urban areas where sewers and municipal treatment plants exist.
-Flush to pit latrine is where sewer is flushed straight to a pit latrine via pipe connection.
-Flush to somewhere else exists where sewer is flushed to a river, hanging toilet or some place.
-Pour flush toilet: uses a water seal, but unlike a flush toilet, it uses water poured by hand for flushing (no cistern is used)
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Ventilated Improved Pit latrine (VIP): The primary features of VIP latrines consist of an enclosed structure (roof and walls) with a large diameter (110mm), PVC vertical ventilation pipe running outside the structure from the pit of the latrine to vent above the roof. They often will have concrete slabs containing the latrine hole.
Pail/bucket: This is a bucket in a residential area and is emptied or drained by pouring water to flush out contents or by disposing the contents somewhere else.
If the respondent answers that they use the bush, the fields, or a cleared corner of the compound, the interviewer will record none and skip to q37
