What main type of toilet facility do your household use?

According to a report by Twaweza East Africa, three out of four households (76 per cent) have access to an “improved” latrine facility.

This includes two out of ten (22 per cent) that use a flush or pour-flush toilet and half (54 per cent) that use a different form of “improved facility” such as a pit latrine with washable slab or a ventilated pit latrine.

This leaves one out of four households (24 per cent) than depend either on an unimproved latrine facility (22 per cent) or that have no access to any form of latrine (2 per cent).

Access to flush toilets is highly dependent on location – much higher in Nairobi – and education status (considered a proxy for wealth).

Having no access to any latrine facility is a little more common in arid and semi-arid parts of the country (Tana River, Marsabit, Turkana, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera; 4-5 per cent) and among households that depend primarily on pensions or remittances as their income (6 per cent).

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