The dataset was collected via a survey designed to audit the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services (WASH) and management issues across all primary and secondary schools in Kitui County, Kenya. A team of 26 local, trained enumerators administered the survey in a total of 1,887 schools. A few schools in Kitui East sub-county could not be reached due to insecurity while a small number of secondary schools refused to participate in the survey. The respondent chosen was the head teacher and, if unavailable, the deputy head and then a senior teacher. The majority of respondents were head or deputy teachers (>88%) with over three in five respondents male.

Tablets were used to administer the survey using ONA with daily quality control coordinated by a locally-based research manager with support from the Oxford team. The research was registered with Government of Kenya’s National Commission for Science, Technology and Innovation and complied with the University of Oxford’s research and ethics guidelines to ensure informed consent, confidentiality and no harm to all participants. The survey was conducted by the University of Oxford with support from Rural Focus Ltd in collaboration with Kitui County Governments’ Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Livestock Development, and the Government of Kenya’s Ministry of Education and County Ministry of Health, and UNICEF-Kenya.