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    The Resident’s Willingness to Pay for Improved Better Sanitation, A Case of Woreda 06, Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa
    (2020-07) Mulatudemile, Melese; Abdisa, Amanuel
    This paper examines the resident’s willingness to pay for improved better sanitation, a case of woreda 06, Yeka sub-city, Addis Ababa a sample of 359 households. The data generated to meet this objective were collected via semi structured questionnaires. The survey is cross sectional and also descriptive and explanatory research designs were used. This study is applied descriptive statistics and binary logit model to investigate the impact of resident’s willingness to pay for improved better sanitation the logistic regression model has as dependent variable the WTP (willing (yes) and not willing (no)). The explaining variables, age of household head, gender, educational level, marital status, distance from garbage, household size, income, housing unit and occupation of household head. The result of the econometric model indicate that residents willingness for the distance from garbage to pay households who are below 200m are 100 percent times more likely willing to sanitize as compared to the households who are between 201-300m. The age situation is significant at the 5 percent level of significance (p-value 0.035). Households who are owned are 86.3 percent times more likely willing to sanitize as compared to the households who are rented. Households who are employed are 206.806 times more likely willing to sanitize as compared to the households who are unemployed. Households who are literate are 1006.355 times more likely willing to sanitize as compared to compared to the households who are illiterate. Households who have monthly income below 3500 birr are highly willing to sanitize as compared to the households who have monthly income 3501-5500 birr, households who have monthly income below 3500 birr as compared to the households who have monthly income 3501-5500 birr and households who have monthly income below 3500 birr as compared to the households who have monthly income 3501-5500 birr. However, there is no statistically significant evidence as whether gender and marital status of head of household’s in woreda 06 yeka subcity affects the resident’s WTP. This study recommends that there is a need to educate people about the benefits associated with improved sanitation services supply, in particular.