Reasons For Discrepancies Between National and International (JMP) Coverage Estimates
The indicators used by the JMP are controversial because they cannot always match cultural and local perceptions of what works or not, and can differ from national estimates. Discrepancies between national and international (JMP) coverage estimates are generally due to one or more of the following:
1) Use of different definitions of access including poorly defined access categories
2) Exclusion of users of shared sanitation facilities of an otherwise improved type, from those considered to have improved sanitation
3) Use of latest survey or census findings vs. use of an interpolated estimates based on linear regression
4) Use of different population estimates, including a different distribution of urban and rural populations
5) Use of “old” estimates which do not reflect the latest or all findings from new sample surveys or a new census
6) Use of “reported” line ministry data vs. use of independently verifiable data from sample surveys or censuses
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