Access to WASH among individuals with disabilities
| Bangladesh -1 | Bangladesh -2 | Cameroon | India | India: open defecation only | Malawi | Malawi: open defecation only | |
| n=78* | n=1374 | n=429 | n=508 | n=274 | n=215 | n=36 | |
| Use same sanitation facility as other household members | 81% | 82.0% | 90% | 95% | 94% | 94.4% | 89% |
| Reasons for using a different facility† | |||||||
| Physically impossible | 93% | – | 73% | 28% | 19% | 33% | 43% |
| Others would not like it/not allowed | 5% | 0 | 0 | 17% | 0 | ||
| Physical or verbal abuse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17% | 0 | ||
| I would be embarrassed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8% | 0 | ||
| Other | 7% | 23% | 72% | 81% | 25% | 57% | |
| Can access sanitation facility without contact with faeces | 53% | – | 86% | 58% | 55% | 86% | 83% |
| Can collect drinking water themselves | 21% | – | 69% | 77% | – | 53% | 67% |
| Reasons cannot collect drinking water themselves‡ | |||||||
| Physically impossible | 50% | 80% | 86% | – | 74% | – | |
| Others would not like it/not allowed | 50% | 13% | 5% | 8% | |||
| Physical or verbal abuse | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3% | |||
| I would be embarrassed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5% | |||
| Other | 0 | 8% | 9% | 10% | |||
| Can access drinking water at home without assistance§ | 88% | – | 86.% | 59% | – | 84% | 81% |
| Use same bathing source as other household members§ | 81% | – | 98% | 97% | – | 95% | 86% |
*Eight households with a confirmed member with a disability excluded due to missing data.
†This is of among the proportion who state they use a different facility.
‡ This is of among the proportion who state they cannot collect water themselves.
§This is among the proportion that collect water themselves.
WASH, water, sanitation and hygiene.