Global Journal of Science Frontier Research, H: Environment & Earth Science, Volume 22 Issue 1

On the occupation of respondent’s 86.7 percent of the respondents were farmers,7.1 percent of the respondents were traders, 3.6 percent of the respondents were government workers, 2.6 percent of the respondents were unemployed as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5: Occupation of respondents; Source: Field Survey, 2020 The dominance of farming in the Mion District is because the district is rural based. According to the Ghana Statistical Service, 92.0 percent of the district lives in rural areas. Abramovsky et al., (2016) observed that CLTS was effective in small, rural, homogenous communities as in the case of the Mion District. b) Situational analysis of the implementation of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) The study analyzes issues concerning the implementation of the CLTS in the Mion District in the Northern Region of Ghana. It looked at the income level of head of household and various sanitation issues that were raise with regards to the implementation of CLTS. c) Household monthly income The income earn by a household is a major factor in determining the social facilities that is provided in the household. The study looked at the income of the household heads per month, which revealed that 97.3 percent of the respondents earn <GHC500 per month while 2.7 percent of the respondents earn between GHC500-1000 per month. d) Household size of respondents The study indicates that 23.1 percent of the respondents have household size between 1-5 people, 36.4 percent of the respondents have household size between 6-10 people, 16.4percent of the households also have household size between 11-15 people, and 8.9percent have between 16 - 20 people. Also, 13.8percent of the respondents indicated that the number of people in their households were between 21- 25 people, while 1.3 percent of the respondents have household size of over 26 people as shown in figure 6. 195, 86.7% 16, 7.1% 8, 3.6% 6, 2.6% 0 50 100 150 200 250 Farming Trading Government worker Unemployed Occupation of respondents Numberof respondents © 2022 Global Journals 1 Year 2022 34 Global Journal of Science Frontier Research Volume XXII Issue ersion I VI ( H ) Assessing the Determinants of Open Defecation Free Communities b ased on the Socio-Demographic and Economic Status of Household Heads in the Mion District of Northern Region, Ghana