2024 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Seventh Edition
Zambia, 2024
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2024-V1.0
Producer(s)
Zambia Statistics Agency
Metadata
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Jan 16, 2026
Last modified
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type of cooking fuel (v161)
Data file: ZMBR81FL
Overview
Valid:
35610
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
1 - 97
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | electricity | 1414 |
4%
|
| 2 | solar energy | 3 |
0%
|
| 3 | liquefied petroleum gas (lpg)/cooking gas | 73 |
0.2%
|
| 4 | piped natural gas | 9 |
0%
|
| 5 | biogas | 8 |
0%
|
| 6 | alcohol/ethanol | 0 |
0%
|
| 7 | gasoline/diesel | 0 |
0%
|
| 8 | kerosene/paraffin | 0 |
0%
|
| 9 | coal/lignite | 8 |
0%
|
| 10 | charcoal | 13085 |
36.7%
|
| 11 | wood | 20351 |
57.1%
|
| 12 | straw/shrubs/grass | 125 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | agricultural crop | 0 |
0%
|
| 14 | animal dung/waste | 4 |
0%
|
| 15 | processed biomass (pellets) or woodchips | 73 |
0.2%
|
| 16 | garbage/plastic | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | sawdust | 0 |
0%
|
| 95 | no food cooked in house | 7 |
0%
|
| 96 | other | 7 |
0%
|
| 97 | not a de jure resident | 443 |
1.2%
|
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.