Please use SanQoL-5 in your monitoring, evaluation, trials, etc! It is already being used by WSUP, World Vision, and Sanergy. Some FAQs on SanQoL-5 are on the website (www.SanQoL.org)

We also found good evidence of cross-cultural comparability, with <10% of 75 inter-country comparisons suggesting questions were being interpreted differently.

Our results show that sanitation implementers & researchers can use SanQoL-5 to monitor & evaluate sanitation progs. We found support for 87% of the hypotheses we tested about how SanQoL-5 scores vary with toilet characteristics such as locks on doors, quality of walls, or faeces being visible.

To arrive at these weights, we used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) reported in this study.
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Great collaboration with Instituto Nacional de Saúde as part of the Maputo Sanitation Trial.
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If a given population thinks that avoiding disgust is more important than avoiding shame, then the weights should reflect this, e.g. 0.22 for disgust and 0.18 for shame instead of 0.20 for both.
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The 5 answers are combined as an index ranging 0-1, but the five attributes are not weighted equally.
Why?
Because for a measure to be used cost-effectiveness or benefit-cost analysis, attributes should be weighted according to people's values.
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The SanQoL-5 is a validated index which measures people’s experience of sanitation with 5 questions about privacy, disgust, safety, shame, and disease – more details on the website [www.sanqol.org]
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