A randomized controlled trial conducted with pregnant women in Guatemala, India, Peru, and Rwanda between 2016 and 2021. The data compares birth weight and personal exposure to PM2.5, black carbon, and carbon monoxide between intervention (LPG stove) and control (biomass stove) groups. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Use Cases
- Analyze the effect of cooking fuel intervention on infant birth weight based on the randomized trial design.
- Model the relationship between personal exposure to PM2.5 and birth outcomes based on the measured pollutant data.
- Compare the efficacy of LPG versus biomass stoves across different global regions based on the multi-country study sites.
Strengths
- Data originates from a multi-country randomized controlled trial, a strong study design for causal inference.
- Includes repeated measurements of personal exposure to three key pollutants (PM2.5, black carbon, carbon monoxide) during pregnancy.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- ODUM Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Randomized controlled trial.
- Time Range
- Trial period implied by ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT02944682 (registered 2016).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-06 03:10:07; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Guatemala, India, Peru, Rwanda