Bangladesh - Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution 2004

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Reference ID BGD_2004_IAP_v01_M
Year 2003 - 2004
Country Bangladesh
Producer(s) The World Bank
Created on
Sep 29, 2011
Last modified
Sep 14, 2013
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Documentation

Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports that describe the survey process and the key results for this study.
Questionnaires
District Survey Questionnaire
pdf   156.33 KB

Country Bangladesh
Language English
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Monitored Day Questionnaire
pdf   47.95 KB

Country Bangladesh
Language English
Description Supplementary Questions for Households where PM monitors are used.
Note: Interview should be conducted the day after. Answers should be pertinent to the monitored day only
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Reports
Indoor Air Quality for Poor Families: New Evidence from Bangladesh
pdf   702.42 KB

Author(s) Development Research Group World Bank, Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey, and David Wheeler
Date 2004-09-01
Country Bangladesh
Language English
Description Indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heating is estimated to kill a million children annually in developing countries. To promote a better understanding of IAP, the authors investigate the determinants of IAP in Bangladesh using the latest air monitoring technology and a national household survey. The study concludes that IAP is dangerously high for many poor families in Bangladesh. Concentrations of respirable airborne particulates(PM10) 300 ug/m3 or greater are common in the sample, implying widespread exposure to a serious health hazard. Poor households in Bangladesh depend heavily on wood, dung, and other biomass fuels. The econometric results indicate that fuel choice significantly affects indoor pollution levels: Natural gas and kerosene are significantly cleaner than biomass fuels. However, household-specific factors apparently matter more than fuel choice in determining PM10 concentrations. In some biomass-burning households, concentrations are scarcely higher than in households that use natural gas. The results suggest that cross-household variation is strongly affected by structural arrangements-cooking locations, construction materials, and ventilation practices. The authors' analysis also suggests that poor families may not have to wait for clean fuels or clean stoves to enjoy significantly cleaner air. Within their sample household population, some arrangements are already producing relatively clean conditions, even when "dirty" biomass fuels are used. Since these arrangements are already within the means of poor families, the scope for cost-effective improvements may be larger than is commonly believed.
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Who Suffers from Indoor Air Pollution? Evidence from Bangladesh
pdf   705.79 KB

Author(s) Development Research Group World Bank, Susmita Dasgupta, Mainul Huq, M. Khaliquzzaman, Kiran Pandey, and David Wheeler
Date 2004-10-01
Country Bangladesh
Language English
Description In this paper the authors investigate individuals' exposure to indoor air pollution. Using new survey data from Bangladesh, they analyze exposure at two levels-differences within households attributable to family roles, and differences across households attributable to income and education. Within households, they relate individuals' exposure to pollution in different locations during their daily round of activity. The authors find high levels of exposure for children and adolescents of both sexes, with particularly serious exposure for children under 5. Among prime-age adults, they find that men have half the exposure of women (whose exposure is similar to that of children and adolescents). They also find that elderly men have significantly lower exposure than elderly women. Across households, they draw on results from their previous paper (Dasgupta et al, 2004), which relate pollution variation across households to choices of cooking fuel, cooking locations, construction materials, and ventilation practices. They find that these choices are significantly affected by family income and adult education levels (particularly for women). Overall, the authors find that the poorest, least-educated households have twice the pollution levels of relatively high-income households with highly-educated adults. For children in a typical household, pollution exposure can be halved by adopting two simple measures-increasing their outdoor time from 3 to 5 or 6 hours a day, and concentrating outdoor time during peak cooking periods. The authors recognize that weather and other factors may intervene occasionally, and that child supervision outdoors may be difficult for some households. However, the potential benefits are so great that neighbors might well agree to pool outdoor supervision once they became aware of the implications for their children's health.
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Other materials
Data Conversion Program for IAP Districts
do   75.55 KB

Data Conversion Program for IAP MINIVOL
do   12.99 KB

Data Conversion Program for IAP Monitered PD RAM
do   1.65 KB

Data reshape program
do   9.21 KB

Date 2010-09-14
Language English
Download http://catalog.ihsn.org/index.php/catalog/136/download/29025

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