STEPS is a household-based survey to obtain core data on the established risk factors that determine the major burden of NCDs. In 2018, STEPS was conducted by National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine with technical assistance of WHO and financial assistance of NCDC, DGHS, MoHFW, Government of Bangladesh. The STEPS 2018 was a cross–sectional survey is carried out from September 2017 to June 2018 among adult population aged 18-69 years of men and women residing in the households of all the divisions of Bangladesh. Sampling was done by multistage, geographically stratified probability based sampling. All the 3 steps of STEPS are completed for the 1^st time in this country by this countrywide population survey. 

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