Main fuel used for cooking

Updated September 1, 2026

Asks the main cooking fuel — firewood, crop residue, cow-dung cake, coal/lignite/charcoal, kerosene, LPG/PNG, electricity, biogas, solar, other, no cooking.

ANNOUNCED (Q24). Asks the main cooking fuel — firewood, crop residue, cow-dung cake, coal/lignite/charcoal, kerosene, LPG/PNG, electricity, biogas, solar, other, no cooking. Tracks the clean-cooking transition; same series as 2011. Confidence: high for item, medium for exact options.

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