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Awareness and the demand for improved drinking water source in Cameroon

International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories

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Title Awareness and the demand for improved drinking water source in Cameroon
 
Creator Totouom Fotuè, Luc Armand
 
Subject economics, microeconomics, econometrics and statistics
Awareness, household’ choice, drinking water source, Cameroon.
C25, D12, Q25
 
Description Given the growing emphasis being placed on population access to safe and reliable water, there is a pressing need to identify factors affecting household choice of drinking water source so that policy makers can more accurately target initiatives for population access to potable water. This paper seeks to examine the impact of Cameroonian households’ awareness about health effects of contaminated water (awareness is measured by schooling and exposure to mass media) on their choice of adopting improved water source. Our study relies on data from the third Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey (MICS3).  The results from the estimation of the probit model used for empirical analysis show that awareness variable positively affects the decision of adopting improved water source. As compare to illiterate headed-household, the more educated headed-household, the more the probability of choosing improved source. Households owning a TV are more likely to adopt improved source (marginal effect is 0.113). Also, the possession of a radio positively affects household decisions even if the effect is not significant. The policy implications of the research are described in the paper.
 
Publisher International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2013-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ijept.org/index.php/ijept%20/article/view/Awareness_and_the_Demand_for_Improved_Drinking_Water_Source_in_Cameroon
 
Source International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories; Vol 3, No 1 (2013); 50-59
2247 – 7225
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ijept.org/index.php/ijept%20/article/view/Awareness_and_the_Demand_for_Improved_Drinking_Water_Source_in_Cameroon/pdf