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Table 1 Sample size determination in the study of pooled prevalence of open defecation and determinants among households in sub-Saharan Africa 2010–2020 DHS

From: Open defecation practice and its determinants among households in sub-Saharan Africa: pooled prevalence and multilevel analysis of 33 sub-Saharan Africa countries demographic and health survey

Sub-Saharan Africa Countries with Recent DHS report from 2010/11 to 2019/20

Regions

Countries

Standard

DHS year

Sample size (n)

Percentage (%)

East Africa countries

Burundi

2016/17

15,977

3.53

Comoros

2012

4482

0.99

Ethiopia

2016

16,650

3.68

 

Kenya

2014

36,430

8.05

 

Malawi

2015/16

26,361

5.83

 

Mozambique

2015

7169

1.59

 

Rwanda

2019/2020

12,949

2.86

Tanzania

2015/16

12,563

2.78

Uganda

2016

19,588

4.33

Zambia

2018

12,831

2.84

Zimbabwe

2015

10,534

2.33

Subtotal

175,534

38.81

 

Angola

2015/16

16,109

3.56

 

Cameroon

2018

11,710

2.59

Central Africa countries

Chad

2014/15

17,233

3.81

DR Congo

2013/14

18,171

4.02

Congo

2011/12

11,632

2.57

Gabon

2012

9755

2.16

Subtotal

84,610

18.71

 

Benin

2017/18

14,156

3.13

 

Burkina Faso

2011

14,424

3.19

 

Ivory Coast

2011/12

9686

2.14

 

Gambia

2019/20

6549

1.45

 

Ghana

2014

11,835

2.62

West Africa

countries

Guinea

2018

7912

1.75

Liberia

2019/20

9068

2

Mali

2018

9510

2.1

 

Niger

2012

10,750

2.38

 

Nigeria

2018

40,427

8.94

 

Senegal

2019

4538

1

 

Sierra Leone

2019

13,399

2.96

 

Togo

2013/14

9549

2.11

Subtotal

161,803

35.77

Southern Africa countries

Lesotho

2014

9402

2.08

Namibia

2013

9849

2.18

South Africa

2016

11,083

2.45

Subtotal

30,334

6.71

Total sample size

452,281

100%