Tobacco Cessation Determinants Across 29 Countries with Policy Indicators

A 76.9 MB dataset from a 2026 study combines harmonized Global Adult Tobacco Survey records with WHO policy indicators from 29 countries. It includes analysis code and trained Random Forest models to examine factors for quit attempts and successful cessation. The package, authored by Christoph Wies, is provided for transparency and reproducibility.

Use Cases

• Training predictive models for smoking cessation success based on individual and country-level features.
• Analyzing the relative importance of policy indicators versus personal factors for quitting behavior.
• Reproducing permutation-based variable importance calculations for public health research.
• Conducting secondary analyses on harmonized international tobacco survey data.

Strengths

• Includes trained Random Forest classifiers and full analysis code for reproducibility.
• Combines individual-level survey data from 29 countries with harmonized WHO policy indicators.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, facilitating open reuse and secondary analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• Data freshness should be verified, as the underlying survey collection periods are not specified.

Provenance

Source

Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) and WHO tobacco control policy indicators.

Collection Method

Harmonized survey records combined with country-level policy data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 08:17:29.

Geography

29 countries (specific nations not listed).