[4] What is the usual type of fuel used for cooking in your household?

Question 4: what is the usual type of fuel the family uses for cooking food?

Ask the family about the fuel they are using to cook food and determine the mostly used fuel source, circle the appropriate reference. A family might have used various kinds of fuel to cook their food. In such case, only circle the fuel that is used most. The detail description of fuels that families usually use has been put below:

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1. Wood / firewood - If the family is using usually wood/firewood for cooking food, circle the reference 1.

2. Kerosene - If the family is usually using kerosene stove for cooking food, circle the reference 2.

3. LP gas - If the family is usually using LP gas cylinder to cook food, circle the reference 3.

4. Cow dung / bio briquette - If the family is usually using the cow dung briquette or dried livestock dung mixed in wood, jute stick, fodder or bio briquette, circle the reference 4.

5. Bio gas - If the family is usually using the biogas produced from livestock dung, circle the reference 5.

6. Electricity - If the family is usually using electricity for cooking food, circle the reference 6.

7. Others - Besides the fuels stated above, if the family is usually using other fuel sources for cooking food (e.g. solar, thatch, straw, fodders only), circle the reference 7 and specify the fuel source items.