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

Table 2.

Key determinants of adult tobacco use in Madagascar, Demographic Health Survey, 2008–09 (Base outcome category: No tobacco use)

 
Smoked tobacco products (Smoking)
Smokeless tobacco products (SLTs use)
Dual use
 
Male
Female
Male
Female
Male
  RRR 95% CI RRR 95% CI RRR 95% CI RRR 95% CI RRR 95% CI
Age
 Age 15-49
1.02***
[1.01,1.03]
1.06***
[1.03,1.08]
1.06***
[1.05,1.07]
1.05***
[1.04,1.05]
1.04***
[1.02,1.06]
Education (Base: University education)
No education
1.39
[0.86,2.25]
 
 
7.68*
[1.41,42.00]
 
 
3.16
[0.67,14.93]
Primary
1.16
[0.75,1.82]
 
 
6.52*
[1.21,35.20]
 
 
2.26
[0.50,10.28]
High-School
1.04
[0.69,1.57]
 
 
2.49
[0.46,13.50]
 
 
1.54
[0.38,6.21]
Wealth
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Wealth Index
1.02
[0.89,1.16]
1.58*
[1.11,2.24]
0.45***
[0.38,0.54]
0.59***
[0.52,0.66]
0.70*
[0.51,0.98]
Occupation (Base: Unemployed)
Agriculture
3.41***
[2.46,4.72]
0.32**
[0.14,0.73]
5.26***
[2.74,10.09]
2.36***
[1.76,3.16]
6.58***
[2.32,18.67]
Service-manual
3.63***
[2.62,5.04]
1.03
[0.55,1.92]
5.55***
[2.79,11.03]
2.44***
[1.77,3.37]
4.94**
[1.66,14.69]
Service-non-Manual
2.75***
[1.76,4.30]
0.62
[0.24,1.59]
3.77**
[1.54,9.26]
0.42*
[0.18,1.00]
5.99**
[1.55,23.20]
Married (Base: Unmarried)
1.02
[0.86,1.21]
0.86
[0.54,1.38]
1.22*
[1.01,1.48]
0.96
[0.83,1.11]
1.46*
[1.04,2.06]
Religion (Base: Christian)
Other Religion
1.28**
[1.09,1.51]
 
 
0.51***
[0.42,0.62]
 
 
0.63**
[0.46,0.86]
Muslim
1.36
[0.77,2.42]
 
 
0.11***
[0.03,0.41]
 
 
2.14
[0.74,6.21]
Traditional
1.57
[0.96,2.58]
 
 
0.52*
[0.29,0.92]
 
 
0.29*
[0.09,0.86]
Residence (Base: Rural)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Urban 1.37* [1.07,1.75] 0.86 [0.45,1.64] 0.81 [0.56,1.16] 1 [0.76,1.31] 1.25 [0.74,2.11]

Notes: RRR - Relative Risk Ratios; 95% confidence intervals in parentheses; Chi-square goodness of fit statistics 829.14 for male regression and 620.28 for females were both significant at p<0.001; Sample size was 7653 for male regression & 17369 for female regression; Age and wealth index are continuous variables and all others are categorical; Analyses were not conducted for dual use among females because of the small n.

* p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001.