Defecation behavior assessed with the parameters place and frequency, stratified by the abundance of household-owned latrines.

The study was carried out among 431 households in the Taabo health demographic surveillance system in south-central Côte d’Ivoire in July 2011.aFrequency of defecation (defecation frequency index) assessed on a semi-quantitative scale (0 = never, 1 = irregular, 2 = regular, 3 = often, 4 = always) for each place of defecation. Frequency is indicated as means (standard error in brackets).bP-value assessed with Wilcoxon rank-sum test.