DOI: 10.5061/dryad.02v6wwqbf
title: Jumping up the sanitation ladder in rural Cambodia: the role of remittances and peer-to-peer pressure in adopting high quality latrines

description: Between November 2018 and February 2019, qualitative data collection was
 conducted in 7 rural villages situated in the provinces of Kampung Speu
 and Kampung Cham in Cambodia. These villages are located approximately two
 to three hours away from Phnom Penh, the political and economic hub of
 Cambodia. The focus of this study was on these villages due to their
 involvement in the Cambodia Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement
 Programme (CRSHIP), which was implemented by the Ministry of Rural
 Development and Plan International Cambodia from 2012 to 2016. The CRSHIP
 aimed to enhance access to improved sanitation facilities and promote
 proper hygiene practices among rural communities through various
 approaches such as Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), sanitation
 marketing, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) in schools, and behavior
 change communication campaigns.
description: These seven villages were data collection was conducated were
 identified to have achieved over 85% latrine coverage at the time of our
 visit, based on reports from the village chiefs. In essence, these
 villages successfully attained and maintained Open Defecation Free (ODF)
 status as defined by the Cambodian government, which sets 85% latrine
 coverage as the threshold for Open Defecation Free status.
 Data collection was carried out by a local researcher proficient
 in Khmer and English, who conducted transect walks, interviews, and focus
 group discussions until saturation was reached, spending three to five
 days in each community. In total, we conducted 92 interviews, involving 55
 female and 37 male participants, alongside seven focus group discussions
 (one per village, involving both male and female participants).
 Interviewees at the village level encompassed villagers and eight village
 leaders. Data were analyzed using NVIVO.
description: # Jumping up the sanitation ladder in rural Cambodia: the role of
 remittances and peer-to-peer pressure in adopting high quality latrines
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.02v6wwqbf](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.02v6wwqbf) The seven villages were research took place were identified to have achieved over 85% latrine coverage at the time of our visit, based on reports from the village chiefs. In essence, these villages successfully attained and maintained Open Defecation Free (ODF) status as defined by the Cambodian government, which sets 85% latrine coverage as the threshold for Open Defecation Free status. Data collection was carried out by a local researcher proficient in Khmer and English, who conducted transect walks, interviews, and focus group discussions until saturation was reached, spending three to five days in each community. In total, we conducted 92 interviews, involving 55 female and 37 male participants, alongside seven focus group discussions (one per village, involving both male and female participants). Interviewees at the village level encompassed villagers and eight village leaders. **Description of the data and file structure** The data we are are sharing include the following files: * File Glossary - to explain the most frequently used terms in our files that might not be known to our reader. This includes a description of different types of latrines and subsidies and their price. The glossary was put together by the field research team. * File Village memo 1 to 7 ( one for each of the 7 villages where we worked) - This constitutes a processed summary of all data collection (interviews and focused groups) that have occured in a certain village. This was prepared by our local researcher who did the field work, and included the analysis of the interviews data.  * File All Village Summary - This files organized the findings from our villages along key variables of interest, as identified in the column headers. This was put together by our data analysis team. * File Data collection instruments - these are the questions we used for the overall project. We had to anonymize the villages where the data were collected, the people we interviewed in each village, and the implementing partners (IP) who run the programs in them. We have provided a glossary to accompany the data, so that abbreviation can be understood. The glossary also contains a description of latrine types, and different organizations that offered subsidy and the type of subsidy offered in the study villages. All data are word documents, except for the glossary, which is an excel file with 3 tabs. ## Sharing/Access information We are sharing all data we are able to share. ## Code/Software We used Nvivo to analyze this data.