Household Satisfaction with Sanitation Purchases

Indicator Phrasing

Percent of households who express satisfaction with their sanitation purchases
Pourcentage de ménages qui expriment leur satisfaction quant à leurs achats d'assainissement

Indicator Phrasing

INDICATOR PHRASING: Percent of households who express satisfaction with their sanitation purchases

Français: Pourcentage de ménages qui expriment leur satisfaction quant à leurs achats d'assainissement

What is its purpose?

This outcome indicator is designed to demonstrate both the value attributed by households to the investment they have made, but also to demonstrate the quality of the sanitation products/services which have been made available to them. "Sanitation purchases"includes both products and services "satisfaction"can cover multiple aspects - including price, quality, timing, availability, delivery.

How to Collect and Analyse the Required Data

Subset of the population based household survey - when respondents indicate that they have invested in their household sanitation - either through purchasing sanitation products or services.
Alternatively, if sanitation businesses/entrepreneurs keep records of their customers, this can be a sampling frame from which to undertake random sampling for a representative household survey.
The data should be limited to feedback on sanitation products / services which have been made available through your project's activities.

Survey questions will need to firstly explore the types of products / services procured, before asking specific questions about satisfaction with different aspects. Five-point Likert scale questions are the most helpful to use for this type of indicator - very satisfied, moderately satisfied, neither satisfied or dissatisfied, moderately dissatisfied, very dissatisfied. You might want to subsitute "moderately" with "somewhat" if that is easier to understand.. Questions you may want to consider asking include:

How satisfied were you with the price you paid for the product / service?
How satisfied were you with the choice of products / services available?
How satisfied were you with the ease to purchase the product / service?
How satisfied were you with the quality of the product / service?

If multiple products/services have been procured, then satisfaction with each of them should be explored.

Disaggregate by

Type of sanitation product / service purchased

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