10.17037/DATA.00005487
Data collected as part of a trial investigating the availability and use of household sanitation and hygiene facilities, and their impact on quality of life among households in the Chiradzulu District of Malawi. The dataset includes variables on household size, the presence of functional disabilities among household members, water sources, and SanQoL-5 measurements, including wealth quintile, disease, privacy, shame, and safety attributes. The dataset supports the analyses reported in the paper, "Impact of Community-led Total Sanitation on Sanitation-related Quality of Life in Chiradzulu District, Malawi: A Controlled Before-and-After Trial."
The ‘w4e_sanqol5_data’ dataset contains the 16 variables outlined below.
| Variable Name | Variable Label | Answer Label | Answer Code | Variable Type |
| g1_name_of_ta | Name of Traditional Authority (arm) | Numeric | ||
| CLTS+ (Chitera) | 1 | |||
| Control (Nkalo) | 2 | |||
| CLTS (Ntchema) | 3 | |||
| n_hh_members | Number of household members | Open ended | Numeric | |
| gender_hhid | Participant gender | Numeric | ||
| Female | 0 | |||
| Male | 1 | |||
| vas_sanitation | Sanitation Visual Analogue Scale (0-10) | Open ended | Numeric | |
| baseline_endline | Collection timepoint | Numeric | ||
| Baseline | 1 | |||
| Endline | 2 | |||
| disability_overall | Household member has functional disability (Washington Group 6-item scale) | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| water_source_onsite_onplot | Water source is on-site | Numeric | ||
| No | 0 | |||
| Yes | 1 | |||
| quintile | Wealth quintile (1-5) | Open ended | Numeric | |
| comm_hhmed | Village population relative to median | Numeric | ||
| below median village size | 0 | |||
| at or above median village size | 1 | |||
| village | Village ID | Open ended | Numeric | |
| sq_disg | Disgust attribute (SanQoL-5) | Numeric | ||
| Always | 0 | |||
| Sometimes | 1 | |||
| Never | 2 | |||
| sq_heal | Disease attribute (SanQoL-5) | Numeric | ||
| Always | 0 | |||
| Sometimes | 1 | |||
| Never | 2 | |||
| sq_priv | Privacy attribute (SanQoL-5) | Numeric | ||
| Always | 0 | |||
| Sometimes | 1 | |||
| Never | 2 | |||
| sq_sham | Shame attribute (SanQoL-5) | Numeric | ||
| Always | 0 | |||
| Sometimes | 1 | |||
| Never | 2 | |||
| sq_safe | Safety attribute (SanQoL-5) | Always | Numeric | |
| Sometimes | 0 | |||
| Never | 1 | |||
| 2 | ||||
| sanqol | SanQoL-5 index (0-1) | Open ended | Numeric |