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While I have been finding generally positive results, one limitation of my study has been that all of my data about how many toilets were built has come from the government data I wrote about a few weeks ago. It would be reassuring to have a measure of how many toilets were built according to somebody other than the person whose job it is to build them.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The only plausible data that I have heard about was collected by UNICEF in 47 districts of Uttar Pradesh. This morning it was waiting for me in my email, sent by my friend Amit in Lucknow. I should be clear: these are my own conclusions, and should not be interpreted or quoted as \\\"UNICEF says\\\", they were just kind enough to share their data. Also, if you haven't been following along, this one graph is, of course, not enough evidence to draw any conclusion about anything in itself. 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