Table 2.

The comparison between tobacco spending with education, health care, food spending and total expenditure of households by quintile (%)

	Tobacco spending/education spending	Tobacco spending/healthcare spending	Tobacco spending/food spending	Tobacco spending/total expenditure
Total	62.47	56.23	6.36	3.48
Urban-rural
Rural	71.36	56.91	6.43	3.67
Urban	42.31	53.79	6.11	2.92
Large city	29.70	31.77	4.95	2.15
Small city and town	41.38	54.25	5.93	2.79
Small town	51.01	72.09	6.83	3.46
Region
North Mountain and Midland	63.44	63.52	4.18	2.60
Red River Delta	59.98	57.76	5.04	2.87
North Central Coast	67.87	62.19	6.40	3.69
South Central Coast	83.96	67.19	6.98	4.06
Central Highlands	81.70	75.65	6.22	3.75
Southeast	53.70	47.60	6.82	3.61
Mekong Delta	83.77	52.47	7.48	4.19
Income
Very low Income	150.69	97.11	7.83	5.29
Low	108.17	86.99	7.31	4.58
Middle	94.21	67.00	7.40	4.30
Mid-High	68.10	72.69	7.71	4.06
High	46.35	68.92	8.83	3.60

Source: The Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1997–1998