Bangladesh Chars Tobacco Assessment Project (CTAP) 2018

The Chars Tobacco Assessment Project (CTAP) 2018 is a holistic survey conducted in the chars of Gaibandha in Northern Bangladesh, covering 985 households over 24 clusters. In addition to detailed information on tobacco (smoking and smokeless) consumption and perception, it provides a holistic overview of the socio-economic conditions of the households with data collected on: Household Composition, Housing and Plot Ownership, Consumption, Risks and Shocks Coping, Dowry, Farm Production, Loans, Savings and Lending, Labor Income, Asset Holdings, Migration and Remittance, Anthropometry, Respiratory Diseases, Co-morbidities, Reproductive History, Risk & Time preference. Unique to the dataset are carbon monoxide readings for accurate short term smoking measurement and FEV1 and PEF values for identification of long term lung damage. The data is representative only for the chars of Gaibandha.