Cooking Energy Access Survey 2020

The Cooking Energy Access Survey (2020) captures detailed information about cooking energy access in households across six states in India: Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. This survey covers 2,765 urban slum and rural households across the six states. The states covered in the survey account for six out of the eight lowest socio-demographic index (SDI) states and exhibit the highest health impacts due to household air pollution. These states also have the highest percentage of households covered under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) – the flagship clean cooking energy programme of the Government of India. The survey was conducted with the primary cook of the household. It provides detailed information about the households' fuel use pattern, use of LPG and solid fuels, fuel-stacking behaviours, fuel end-uses, and perception of various cooking fuels and their health impacts.