Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009-India, 2009, in Punjab and Chandigarh

Agency : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) was conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with technical and financial support from the World Health Organization, CDC and CDC Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OHBSPH) and the Bloomberg Philanthropies. The survey covered population in the age group 15 + living in households. For carrying out GATS- India project, International Institute for Population Sciences (lIPS), Mumbai was the nodal implementing agency. Institute of Health Management Research IIHMR) carried out survey in the state of Punjab and Chancligarh. Under this study interview responses were captured through a handheld pocket PC/PDA. The survey covered 4400 households.

GATS-India conducted Adult Tobacco Survey in India in all the 29 states (including Delhi) and in the two union territories of Chandigarh and Pondicherry covering about 99.92 percent of the total population (2001 Census of India), to provide estimates of the levels of tobacco use, second hand exposure and cessation attempts, economics of tobacco use, exposure to media and advertisements, knowledge, attitudes and perception among men and women separately for urban and rural areas of India.


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