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A Multilevel Regression Analysis of Water Treatment Facility Adoption in Ghana: A Methodological Evaluation Dataset (2000–2026)

Kwame Asante, Food Research Institute (FRI) Kofi Mensah Ankrah, Food Research Institute (FRI) Ama Serwaa Boateng, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-Ghana)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18968933
Published: July 26, 2003

Abstract

The adoption of water treatment facilities is critical for public health, yet methodological challenges in measuring adoption rates persist, particularly in capturing hierarchical community and regional influences. This Data Descriptor presents a methodological evaluation dataset designed to enable robust multilevel regression analysis of facility adoption. The objective is to provide a structured resource for assessing the statistical performance of hierarchical models in this engineering context. The dataset integrates administrative records, engineering surveys, and household-level data. The core methodological evaluation employs a three-level logistic regression model specified as $\logit(p_{ijk}) = \beta_0 + u_{j} + v_{k} + \beta X_{ijk}$, where $p_{ijk}$ is the adoption probability for household $i$ in community $j$ and district $k$, with random intercepts $u_j$ and $v_k$. Model diagnostics, including intra-class correlation and variance inflation factors, are computed. The methodological analysis indicates that community-level random effects account for a significant proportion of variance, with an intra-class correlation of 0.31 (95% CI: 0.26, 0.37). This underscores the necessity of a hierarchical modelling approach to avoid biased inference from ignoring clustered data structures. The dataset provides a validated foundation for methodologically sound analysis of adoption drivers, confirming that multilevel modelling is essential for accurate parameter estimation in this domain. Researchers should utilise hierarchical models when analysing similar engineering adoption data. Future data collection should maintain the nested structure to support variance decomposition. multilevel modelling, water treatment, adoption rates, logistic regression, data quality, Ghana This paper provides the first publicly available dataset structured explicitly for evaluating multilevel regression methodologies in the analysis of water treatment infrastructure adoption.

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Kwame Asante, Kofi Mensah Ankrah, Ama Serwaa Boateng (2003). A Multilevel Regression Analysis of Water Treatment Facility Adoption in Ghana: A Methodological Evaluation Dataset (2000–2026). African Civil Engineering Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 (2003). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18968933

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Sub-Saharan Africawater treatment facilitiesmultilevel modellingadoption ratesmethodological evaluationGhanahierarchical data

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