Abstract: Water is one of the most valuable natural resources vital to the existence of any form of life. Safe drinking water is an essential component of primary health care and have vital role in poverty alleviation. This project explores peri urban household choices of safe drinking water by surveying and analyzing 120 household of ijebu north east local government. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze household socio economic characteristics while multinomial logit regression was adopted to identify factors affecting choices of household water source. The result shows that 69.2% of the household have taps running in their house with 48.3% of the household having piped water as their major source of drinking water. Using piped water as the base, the probability of choosing well water relative to piped water are government subsidy and drinking water in liters meanwhile probability of the household choosing bottled water relative to piped water are numbers of individual below SSCE and the household experience of disease i.e. The probability of choosing bottled water relative to piped water increases by 4.7% for a unit increase in the number of individuals in the household below SSCE level. This is significant at 10 percent level of significance. It shows that the awareness and drinking of bottled water is not based on level of education but how safe the household considers it to be. 54.2 percent of the household adopt boiling water as a means of water purification due to the low cost associated with it.
Keywords: peri-urban, household, choice, drinking water.
Title: DETERMINANTS OF PERI URBAN HOUSEHOLDS CHOICE OF DRINKING WATER; A CASE STUDY OF IJEBU NORTH EAST, OGUN STATE
Author: Olubukola Tolulope OYEDIJI, O.A ADENIKA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 542-550
Research Publish Journals
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Published Date: 21-June-2022
