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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Mar 11;68(8):1439–1447. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.02.003

Table 1.

Descriptive statisticsa

All participants Current Smokers % Missing
N 54,024 10,654
Dependent variables
Current smoker 19.5% (SE 0.40%) 100% <1%
Current smoker cigarettes/day 20 (IQR 10, 20) 21%
Current smoker ln(cigarettes/day) 2.67 (SD 0.95) 21%
Policy variables
C Covered by strong clean indoor air law 14.2% (SE 0.35%) 10.1% (SE 0.30%) 11%
P State price of cigarettes per pack ($) 3.47 (SD 0.50) 3.43 (SD 0.50) 0%
Individual variables
E Educational attainment (HS degree = 39)b 40 (IQR 39, 43) 40 (IQR 39, 43) 0%
I Household income ($10,000) 5.36 (SD 5.09) 4.33 (SD 4.44) 11%
B black 12.2% (SE 0.33%) 12.0% (SE 0.33%) 0%
W white 82.8% (SE 0.38%) 83.9% (SE 0.37%) 0%
N American Indian/Aleut/Eskimo 1.1% (SE 0.10%) 1.7% (SE 0.13%) 0%
A Asian Pacific Islander 3.9% (SE 0.19%) 2.4% (SE 0.15%) 0%
L Latino 11.3% (SE 0.32%) 7.9% (SE 0.27%) 1%
Y Age (years) 43.5 (SD 21.6) 40.6 (SD 18.1) 0%
S Female 51.8% (SE 0.50%) 46.7% (SE 0.50%) 0%
a

From combined imputations.

b

The CPS educational attainment scale (code): no education (31), first, second, third or fourth grade (32), fifth or sixth grade (33), seventh or eighth grade (34), ninth grade (35), tenth grade (36), eleventh grade (37), twelfth grade no diploma (38), high school diploma or equivalent (39), some college but no degree (40), occupational associate degree (41), academic associate degree (42), bachelor’s degree (43), master’s degree (44), professional degree (45), or doctorate degree (46).