NFHS-4 & NFHS-5: Healthcare Provider Advice to Quit Tobacco Among Users

Prakash Babu Kodali published a dataset of 8,809 current combustible tobacco users who visited healthcare providers during India's National Family Health Survey rounds 4 and 5. The data examines factors associated with receiving advice from healthcare professionals to quit tobacco. The dataset is available in XLS format and was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Analyze demographic or behavioral factors associated with receiving quit advice based on the survey data.
• Model the likelihood of receiving healthcare provider advice based on user characteristics.
• Compare tobacco cessation counseling rates between the NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 survey periods.
• Identify potential gaps in tobacco cessation support within healthcare settings.

Strengths

• Dataset contains 8,809 individual records from a pooled national survey sample.
• Explicitly covers two major survey rounds (NFHS-4 and NFHS-5), allowing for temporal analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but the specific variables and their distributions are not described, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

National Family Health Survey (NFHS) rounds 4 and 5.

Collection Method

Survey data from current combustible tobacco users who visited healthcare providers.

Time Range

Covers the periods of NFHS-4 and NFHS-5.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:30:25; freshness should be verified.

Geography

India (implied by NFHS).