Table 1.

Women in Europe Against Lung Cancer and Smoking (WELAS) Project demographics by country, weighted.

	All		France	Ireland	Italy	Czech Republic	Sweden	χ2
	(n = 5000)		(n = 1000)	(n = 1000)	(n = 1000)	(n = 1000)	(n = 1000)	p-value
	n	%	%	%	%	%	%	(df = 4)
Ever smoker
(>100 cigarettes in life)	2622	41.3	37.7	49.0	39.7	34.3	45.8	<0.0001
Current smoker	1421	20.5	19.9	23.5	17.5	19.2	18.6	0.0094
Age
18-24	426	8.5	8.2	11.4	6.5	8.3	8.2	<0.0001
25-34	939	18.8	17.2	22.0	19.4	20.1	15.2
35-44	916	18.3	18.6	19.8	19.0	16.0	18.2
45-54	883	17.7	18.1	16.8	16.9	17.9	18.6
55+	1836	36.7	37.9	30.0	38.2	37.7	39.8
Age at last education
<16	601	12.5	5.0	13.2	25.2	6.0	12.3	<0.0001
16-19	2066	42.6	37.1	52.3	34.4	49.8	39.3
20-25	1683	35.0	53.7	29.2	30.0	35.4	27.8
>25	476	9.7	4.0	5.3	10.4	8.9	20.6
(missing)	(n = 174)		(n = 86)	(n = 27)	(n = 5)	(n = 13)	(n = 43)
Marital Status
Married	1979	41.1	46.3	37.1	52.1	38.0	31.9	<0.0001
Divorced/Separated	727	14.2	20.5	8.2	7.8	16.9	17.5
Widowed	605	12.8	3.5	18.2	11.6	22.1	8.9
Never married	1074	21.6	11.2	33.0	25.4	21.6	16.6
Unmarried couple	514	10.4	18.5	3.6	3.1	1.4	25.1
(missing)	(n = 101)		(n = 38)	(n = 28)	(n = 5)	(n = 22)	(n = 8)
Income
Well below the median	463	9.2	7.5	7.7	17.5	8.2	5.2	<0.0001
Below the median	1183	23.5	24.1	25.3	29.7	19.2	19.2
Around the median	1386	27.6	27.4	26.5	21.6	40.8	21.7
Above the median	805	16.0	14.9	21.9	7.4	14.5	21.2
Well above the median	165	3.3	2.8	3.5	0.5	0.8	9.1
Refused to answer	998	20.4	23.3	15.1	23.31	16.5	23.6
Friends/family smoke
None	991	21.1	18.4	20.1	20.2	16.7	29.9	<0.0001
Few	2304	47.8	42.5	52.2	44.5	45.9	53.7
Less than half	587	11.3	13.6	10.3	10.5	13.3	8.5
About half or more	1094	19.9	25.5	17.4	24.8	24.1	8.0
(missing)	(n = 24)		(n = 1)	(n = 7)	(n = 9)	(n = 4)	(n = 3)
Parents smoke
No	2101	43.1	41.4	36.2	43.2	50.9	43.8	<0.0001
Yes	2899	56.9	58.6	63.8	56.9	49.1	56.2