Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS)


A. Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS)

  • What is TQS?

    Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) is a component of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS), which was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other partners to assist countries in establishing tobacco control surveillance and monitoring programmes.

  • What is the TQS Integration Project?

    The integration of TQS into the framework of on-going surveys in OIC Member States will serve as a mechanism to harmonize and standardize the monitoring of key tobacco control indicators regularly and promote sustainability and integration with other risk factors surveillance initiatives.

    Up to now, 15 OIC member countries, namely Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Indonesia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan and Togo have affirmed their commitment to integrate TQS into their ongoing national surveys and ensured the regular implementation and collection of the TQS data. 13 of them (Azerbaijan, Cote d’Ivoire, Chad, Egypt, Gambia, Indonesia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan and Togo) have fully completed the project.

  • What is the objective?

    The main aim of the project is to technically support the OIC countries in their efforts to integrate the TQS into the ongoing national surveys.

  • Documents

    ✓ TQS Booklet (English) (Arabic) (French) (Russian) (Portuguese)

    ✓ TQS Output Tables of the Countries that Have Completed TQS Integration Project

    ✓ TQS Final Reports of the Countries that Have Completed TQS Integration Project

B. Tobacco Questions for Surveys of Youth (TQS-Youth)

  • What is TQS-Youth?

    Tobacco Questions for Surveys of Youth (TQS-Youth) was developed with a view to maintain consistency and comparability in monitoring tobacco use among youth globally and keep-up with the ever-changing tobacco control landscape. The subset of key questions from the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) is meant to improve comparability of youth tobacco data over time by harmonizing youth tobacco surveillance activities across various on-going surveys. TQS-Youth was developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other partners following the success of implementation of the Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS), the subset of key questions from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS).

  • What is the TQS-Youth Integration Project?

    TQS-Youth integration in the framework of on-going youth surveys in OIC member countries will serve as a mechanism to improve survey comparability over time and harmonize them with international tobacco surveillance and monitoring activities.

  • What is the objective?

    The main aim of the project is to technically support the OIC countries in their efforts to integrate the TQS-Youth into the ongoing national youth surveys.

  • Document

    ✓ TQS-Youth Booklet (English) (French)

Implemented Activities of TQS and TQS-Youth


Venue Date Information
Ankara - Türkiye 10 September 2023 Strengthening Tobacco Surveillance: Dynamic Partnership Between SESRIC, CDC, and the CDC Foundation
Ankara - Türkiye 10 May 2023 SESRIC and the Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) of the Republic of Albania signed MoA
SESRIC Headquarters, Ankara - Türkiye 09-10 May 2023 SESRIC Organised the Orientation Workshop on “Tobacco Questions for Surveys of Youth (TQS-Youth)” in Collaboration with the CDC and CDC Foundation
Georgetown - Guyana 11 April 2022 SESRIC and Bureau of Statistics of Guyana signed MoA on TQS Integration Project
Virtual-SESRIC, Ankara - Türkiye 31 March 2022 Technical Consultation on ‘2021 Smoking and Tobacco Consumption Survey Conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)’
Ankara - Türkiye 08 December 2021 SESRIC, CDC and CDC Foundation Launched the Report on ‘Implementation of the Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) in Selected OIC Member Countries: Evidence for Action’
Ramallah City - Palestine 19 August 2021 SESRIC and Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics signed MoA on TQS Integration Project
Virtual-SESRIC, Ankara - Türkiye 09 December 2020 Webinar on ‘Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) and TQS-Youth’
Ankara - Türkiye 12-15 November 2018 Workshop on ‘Transforming Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) Data to Action’
Ankara - Türkiye 16 August 2017 SESRIC and General Directorate of Statistics and Economic Studies (DGSEE) of Gabonese Republic signed MoA
Ankara - Türkiye 16-17 August 2017 Workshop on ‘Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS): Data Analysis & Dissemination’
Freetown - Sierra Leone 09 August 2016 SESRIC and Statistics Sierra Leone of the Republic of Sierra Leone signed MoA
N’Djamena - Chad 16 June 2016 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics, Economic and Demographic Studies of the Republic of Chad signed MoA
Ankara - Türkiye 05 May 2016 Study Visit on ’Global Adult Tobacco Survey and Turkish Health Survey’ in Turkey
Ankara - Türkiye 04 May 2016 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics of the Republic of Niger signed MoA
Ankara - Türkiye 03-04 May 2016 Orientation Workshop on ‘Tobacco Questions for Surveys’
Ankara - Türkiye 25-26 April 2016 Study Visit on ‘Global Adult Tobacco Survey and Turkish Health Survey’ in Turkey
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire 19 April 2016 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire signed MoA
Bamako - Mali 14 January 2016 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) of Republic of Mali signed MoA
Serrekunda - Gambia 11 January 2016 SESRIC and Gambia Bureau of Statistics (GBOS) of Republic of The Gambia signed MoA
Lomé - Togo 06 January 2016 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics and Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED) of Republic of Togo signed MoA
Baku - Azerbaijan 10-13 November 2015 Technical Mission on ‘Integration of Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) – Sampling Methods’ to Azerbaijan
Nouakchott - Mauritania 10 July 2015 SESRIC and National Statistical Office (ONS) of Islamic Republic of Mauritania signed MoA
Dushanbe - Tajikistan 01 June 2015 SESRIC and Agency on Statistics under President of the Republic of Tajikistan signed MoA
Baku - Azerbaijan 27-29 April 2015 Technical Mission on 'Integration of Tobacco Questions for Surveys: Module 2 – Sampling Methods' to Azerbaijan
Cairo - Egypt 14 April 2015 SESRIC and Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) of Arab Republic of Egypt signed MoA
Baku - Azerbaijan 13-15 April 2015 Technical Mission on 'Integration of Tobacco Questions for Surveys: Module 1 – Survey Design and Methodology' to Azerbaijan
Doha - Qatar 19 March 2015 SESRIC Partners with Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics of State of Qatar in Building Capacities in Health Statistics
Yaounde - Cameroon 06 March 2015 SESRIC and National Institute of Statistics of the Republic of Cameroon sign MoA
Astana - Kazakhstan 13 February 2015 SESRIC and Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan sign MoA
Jakarta - Indonesia 29 December 2014 SESRIC Partners with BPS-Statistics Indonesia in Building Capacities in Health Statistics
Ankara - Türkiye 18 November 2014 Study Visit on ‘Global Adult Tobacco Survey and Turkish Health Survey’ in Turkey
Baku - Azerbaijan 13 October 2014 SESRIC Partners with the State Statistical Committee of Republic of Azerbaijan in Building Capacities in Health Statistics
Dakar - Senegal 25 September 2014 Building Capacities in Health Statistics: SESRIC and National Agency of Statistics and Demography (ANSD) of Senegal sign MoA