The Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS), a component of the Global Tobacco
Surveillance System (GTSS), is a global standard for systematically monitoring youth
tobacco use (smoking and smokeless) and tracking key tobacco control indicators.
GYTS is a nationally representative school-based survey of students in grades
associated with age 13–15 years and is designed to produce cross-sectional estimates
for each country. GYTS uses a standard core questionnaire, sample design, and data
collection protocol. It assists countries in fulfilling their obligations under the World
Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to
generate comparable data within and across countries. WHO has developed MPOWER,
a package of selected demand reduction measures contained in the WHO FCTC.