Table 2.
Prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use by demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
| Alcohol | Tobacco | Cannabis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Sample size | Lifetime | Current* | Lifetime | Current* | Lifetime | Past year |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Gender | |||||||
| Male
Female |
393
506 |
146 (38.5)
114 (23.7) |
88 (22.6)
67 (13.3) |
95 (24.3)
8 (1.6) |
72 (18.3)
6 (1.2) |
11 (2.8)
1 (0.2) |
7 (1.8)
– |
| Age | |||||||
| 16–24
25–34 35+ |
275
308 316 |
44 (16.7)
160 (35.1) 110 (37.3) |
27 (9.9)
67 (21.8) 61 (19.4) |
19 (6.9)
41 (13.3) 43 (13.6) |
14 (5.1)
33 (10.7) 31 (9.8) |
6 (2.2)
3 (1.0) 3 (0.9) |
4 (1.5)
1 (0.3) 2 (0.6) |
| Marital Status | |||||||
| Married/cohabitating
Single Widowed/divorced/separated |
495
327 75 |
156 (31.5)
79 (24.2) 25 (33.3) |
93 (18.8)
50 (5.3) 12(16.0) |
52 (10.5)
41 (12.5) 9 (12.0) |
38 (7.7)
32 (9.8) 7 (9.3) |
4 (0.8)
8 (2.4) – |
1 (0.2)
6 (1.8) – |
| Employment status | |||||||
| Working
Unemployed Economically inactive |
300
49 496 |
128 (42.7)
21 (42.9) 95 (19.2) |
77 (25.7)
12 (24.5) 57 (11.5) |
63 (21.0)
8 (16.3) 26 (5.2) |
50 (16.7)
5 (10.2) 17 (3.4) |
9 (3.0)
– 3 (0.6) |
5 (1.7)
– 2 (0.4) |
| Age left full time education | |||||||
| 13 or under/Neverwent
14–16 17 or 18 19+ yrs Still at school |
52
337 212 208 71 |
10 (19.2)
92 (27.3) 61 (28.8) 89 (42.8) 6 (8.5) |
7 (13.5)
54 (16.0) 36 (17.0) 53 (25.5) 4 (5.6) |
5 (9.6)
30 (8.9) 29 (13.7) 34 (16.3) 4 (5.6) |
1 (1.9)
22 (6.5) 26 (12.3) 25 (12.0) 3 (4.2) |
–
4 (1.2) 5 (2.4) 2 (1.0) 1 (1.4) |
–
2 (0.6) 4 (1.9) – 1 (1.4) |
| Area | |||||||
| Saba Saba
Ilala |
418
481 |
136 (32.5)
124 (28.5) |
81 (19.4)
74 (15.4) |
58 (13.9)
45 (9.4) |
42 (10.0)
36 (7.5) |
7 (1.7)
5 (1.0) |
6 (1.4)
1 (0.2) |
| TOTAL | 899 | 260 (28.9) | 155 (17.2) | 103 (11.5) | 78 (8.7) | 12 (1.3) | 7 (0.8) |
*
Current use – participants who responded yes to “do you ever drink or smoke now days”.