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. 2012 Sep 1;2(5):e000767. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000767

Table 3.

Crude and multivariate association with ever tried smoking

Community only† n=3621 All variables‡ n=3543
Variable Crude OR Adjusted OR 95% CI Adjusted OR 95% CI
Individual characteristics
Categorical
 Gender
  Male Reference
  Female 0.84* 1.03 0.88 to 1.21
 Race/ethnicity
  White Ref
  Black 0.85 0.85 0.62 to 1.18
  Hispanic 1.24* 1.18 0.88 to 1.59
  Mixed race/other 1.13 1.08 0.77 to 1.50
 Sibling smokes
  No Ref
  Yes 2.85* 2.13* 1.75 to 2.59
 Friend smoking
  None Ref
  Some 3.93* 2.60* 2.19 to 3.10
  Most 17.14* 7.01* 5.05 to 9.74
Continuous
 Age (for each additional year) 1.39* 1.23* 1.16 to 1.31
 Socioeconomic status 0.76* 0.82* 0.74 to 0.91
 Movie smoking exposure 5.14* 2.66* 1.95 to 3.63
 Team sports participation 0.59* 0.69* 0.54 to 0.89
 Sensation seeking 20.71* 7.72* 5.26 to 11.34
Community characteristics
 Tobacco outlet density (per 1000 people) 1.30* 1.28 0.97 to 1.70 1.27 0.92 to 1.76
 Tobacco outlet proximity (distance in miles to nearest outlet) 0.86 0.94 0.69 to 1.27 0.96 0.67 to 1.36
 Proportion population Black§ 0.80 0.59* 0.42 to 0.83 0.93 0.53 to 1.61
 Proportion population Hispanic§ 1.47 0.87 0.49 to 1.55 0.88 0.41 to 1.87
 Poverty§¶ 2.06 3.66* 1.07 to 12.42 0.74 0.17 to 3.22

*p<0.05.

†Pseudo R2=0.003.

‡Pseudo R2=0.20.

§For each adolescent's census tract.

¶Proportion of families with income below the poverty level.