Global Faecal Sludge Emptying Services Demand • fsmglobal

This data was first published as part of a journal article by (Greene et al. 2021) and contained in the supplemental material as a table in a DOCX file. The following summary table was produced from the data and the code is shown further below.

	population	percent
Demand for faecal sludge emptying services
summarised for 175 countries
mechanized	1,030,317,694	25%
no facility	661,998,822	16%
non-mechanized	1,784,240,549	43%
unemptiable	681,220,088	16%
Total	4,157,777,154	100%

Installation

You can install fsmglobal from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("openwashdata/fsmglobal")

Alternatively, you can download the individual datasets as a CSV or XLSX file from the table below.

dataset	CSV	XLSX
fsmglobal	Download CSV	Download XLSX

Data

The package provides access to one dataset.

library(fsmglobal)

The fsmglobal data set has 9 variables and 700 observations. For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.

fsmglobal

variable_name	variable_type	description
iso3c	character	International Standards Organization (ISO) 3-digit alphabetic codes.
country	character	Name of the country.
emptying_method	character	Type of faecal sludge emptying method for corresponding population in `population_emptying_method`.
population_2017	numeric	Total country population in 2017.
population_emptying_method	numeric	Total population requiring faecal sludge emptying services for type of method identified in `emptying_method`.
count_pits_septics	numeric	Total number of pit latrines and septic tanks in country.
emptying_demand	numeric	Emptying demand as the proportion of `population_emptying_method` / `population_2017`.
urban_demand	numeric	Proportion of urban population.
rural_demand	numeric	Proportion of rural population.

Examples

The code and table below show a summary for the demand for faecal sludge emptying services. Find this and more examples in vignette("examples").

library(fsmglobal)
library(gt)
library(dplyr)

tbl_emptying_demand_global <- fsmglobal |> 
  group_by(emptying_method) |> 
  summarise(
    sum_population_emptying_method = sum(population_emptying_method)
  ) |> 
  mutate(
    percent = sum_population_emptying_method / 
      sum(sum_population_emptying_method) * 100
  )

tbl_emptying_demand_global |> 
  janitor::adorn_totals() |>
  
  # use gt R package to prepare a table
  gt(rowname_col = "emptying_method") |>
  tab_header(title = md("**Demand for faecal sludge emptying services**"), 
             subtitle = "summarised for 175 countries") |> 
  fmt_number(columns = "sum_population_emptying_method", decimals = 0) |> 
  fmt_percent(columns = "percent", decimals = 0, scale_values = FALSE) |> 
  cols_label(sum_population_emptying_method = "population")

	population	percent
Demand for faecal sludge emptying services
summarised for 175 countries
mechanized	1,030,317,694	25%
no facility	661,998,822	16%
non-mechanized	1,784,240,549	43%
unemptiable	681,220,088	16%
Total	4,157,777,154	100%

License

Data are available as CC-BY.

Citation

Please cite using:

citation("fsmglobal")
#> To cite package 'fsmglobal' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Greene N, Hennessy S, Rogers T, Tsai J, III F, Schöbitz L (2023).
#>   "fsmglobal. Global Faecal Sludge Emptying Services Demand."
#>   doi:10.5281/zenodo.8208293 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8208293>,
#>   <https://openwashdata.github.io/fsmglobal/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Misc{greenehennessy:2023,
#>     title = {fsmglobal. Global Faecal Sludge Emptying Services Demand},
#>     author = {Nicola Greene and Sarah Hennessy and Tate W. Rogers and Jocelyn Tsai and Francis L. de los Reyes III and Lars Schöbitz},
#>     year = {2023},
#>     url = {https://openwashdata.github.io/fsmglobal/},
#>     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.8208293},
#>     abstract = {Global faecal sludge emptying demand data for 175 countries. Demand is quantified by population size receiving one of four emptying methods (mechanized, non-mechanized, unemptiable, no facility). The demand is disaggregated by rural and urban percentages of population.},
#>     version = {0.0.1},
#>   }

References

Greene, Nicola, Sarah Hennessy, Tate W. Rogers, Jocelyn Tsai, and Francis L. de los Reyes III. 2021. “The Role of Emptying Services in Provision of Safely Managed Sanitation: A Classification and Quantification of the Needs of LMICs.” Journal of Environmental Management 290 (July): 112612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112612.