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. 2013 Sep 17;13:856. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-856

Table 1.

Prevalence of tobacco use in Madagascar among females aged 15–49 (n= 17,375) and males aged 15–59 years (n=8,586), Demographic Health Survey, 2008-09

Characteristics
Smoked tobacco products
Smokeless tobacco products
Dual use of tobacco products
All tobacco#
  Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Male (%) Female (%) Male (%)
N
 118
2152
1579
1712
18
359
1715
4223
Total
 0.77
28.50
9.60
24.60
0.09
4.30
10.3
48.90
Age (in years)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15-19
 0.60
14.87
3.4
8.40
0.15
1.13
3.82
22.13
20-24
 0.43
35.82
7.4
17.14
0.00
4.57
7.82
48.39
25-29
 0.60
33.61
9.7
24.35
0.07
5.34
10.25
52.62
30-34
 0.73
31.38
12.0
27.94
0.06
4.40
12.68
54.92
35-39
 0.95
32.36
13.8
30.65
0.24
5.11
14.52
57.90
40-44
 1.17
29.91
14.2
32.18
0.06
6.45
15.34
55.64
45-49
 1.53
32.88
15.1
35.79
0.04
6.33
16.58
62.34
50-54
 
25.71
 
40.46
 
3.69
 
62.49
55-59
 
24.42
 
41.86
 
4.33
 
61.95
Education
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
No Education
 0.83
32.37
15.2
33.47
0.29
5.22
15.74
60.62
Primary
 0.38
27.27
11.7
31.73
0.05
4.83
11.98
54.17
High-school
 1.27
28.37
3.6
10.51
0.04
3.17
4.85
35.71
University
 2.06
29.57
0.0
2.70
0.00
1.37
2.06
30.90
Wealth Index (in quintiles)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lowest
 0.38
30.07
12.9
34.36
0.12
4.67
13.18
59.77
Second
 0.57
27.04
13.5
31.19
0.11
4.04
13.94
54.18
Middle
 0.42
25.20
11.6
32.83
0.10
4.99
11.89
53.04
Fourth
 0.43
28.95
8.7
22.59
0.00
5.76
9.09
45.78
Highest
 1.74
30.74
3.7
8.09
0.13
2.25
5.36
36.59
Occupation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unemployed
 1.09
11.56
2.5
2.31
0.01
0.51
3.59
13.36
Agriculture
 0.34
29.04
12.5
32.16
0.09
5.23
12.77
55.97
Service-manual
 1.70
35.37
7.9
15.06
0.17
3.20
9.44
47.24
Service-non-manual
 1.77
32.50
1.4
8.80
0.13
3.67
3.02
37.64
Marital status
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unmarried
 0.75
25.13
7.84
16.26
0.08
2.82
8.51
38.58
Married
 0.78
31.04
10.81
30.96
0.10
5.37
11.49
56.63
Religion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other Religion*
 0.56
32.48
9.7
23.19
0.15
3.95
10.11
51.72
Christian
 0.84
26.45
9.7
25.42
0.08
4.41
10.46
47.46
Muslim
 0.00
39.69
1.7
14.91
0.00
9.45
1.65
45.14
Traditional
 0.96
35.05
9.7
22.75
0.00
1.84
10.67
55.96
Residence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Urban
 1.69
33.78
4.4
8.05
0.18
2.75
5.92
39.08
Rural  0.58 27.48 10.7 27.81 0.08 4.56 11.23 50.72

* All other religious groups which are not Christian, not Muslim or not traditional.

# Prevalence for smoked and smokeless tobacco use is not mutually exclusive. Therefore, the totals in the last two columns are summations of the corresponding smoked and SLT percentages minus dual use.