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. 2014 Jan 9;14:16. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-16

Table 3.

Health behaviour in the 10 th grade according to non-completion of upper secondary school (n = 10931)

 
Boys (5511)
Girls (5420)
  Proportion of population Non-completion rate percentage Proportion of population Non-completion rate percentage
Health behaviour in the 10 th grade
 
 
 
Smoking
(n = 5474)
*
(n = 5394)
*
  No
74.2
32.5
66.8
19.0
  Sometimes
12.4
44.4
16.3
25.9
  Yes, every day
13.4
68.9
16.9
52.4
Alcohol last year
(n = 5387)
*
(n = 5337)
*
  Never
26.5
35.7
22.3
23.5
  A few times last year
27.2
30.7
30.2
19.7
  1–3 times a month
32.1
42.1
34.5
28.9
  Once a week or more
14.2
52.2
13.1
35.2
Physical activity
(n = 5390)
*
(n = 5248)
*
  0 hour per week
10.4
50.5
12.3
37.1
  1–2 hours per week
19.4
45.7
29.6
31.1
  3–4 hours per week
20.8
37.9
27.1
22.1
  5–7 hours per week
23.1
34.0
20.4
16.4
  8 hours or more per week 26.4 32.3 10.7 18.8

* Statistically significant difference between completer and non-completers, p ≤ 0.001.