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What Do We Learn about the Swacch Bharat Mission from the NFHS-5 Fact Sheets?

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  • Spears, Dean

    (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Franz, Nathan

    (University of Texas at Austin)

  • Coffey, Diane

    (rice Institute)

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How much did rural sanitation in India change under the five years of the Swacch Bharat Mission? The best nationally representative statistics on sanitation in India have long come from the Demographic and Health Surveys, known as the National Family and Health Surveys in India. The fifth round, conducted in 2019 and 2020, was interrupted by the pandemic, but limited summary statistics have been released for some states. Here we analyze these statistics. We conclude that about half of the rural population in the four large Indian states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh continued to defecate in the open at the end of the Swacch Bharat Mission.

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  • Spears, Dean & Franz, Nathan & Coffey, Diane, 2021. "What Do We Learn about the Swacch Bharat Mission from the NFHS-5 Fact Sheets?," IZA Policy Papers 172, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    1. Dean Spears & Arabinda Ghosh & Oliver Cumming, 2013. "Open Defecation and Childhood Stunting in India: An Ecological Analysis of New Data from 112 Districts," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(9), pages 1-1, September.
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    Keywords

    India; sanitation; open defecation; Swacch Bharat Mission; SBM; NFHS;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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