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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2012 Jun 15;22(6):e12. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050249

Table 1.

Selected characteristics of the study sample, by country


Armenia
N (%)
Azerbaijan
N (%)
Belarus
N (%)
Georgia
N (%)
Kazakhstan
N (%)
Kyrgyzstan
N (%)
Moldova
N (%)
Russia
N (%)
Ukraine
N (%)

Gender
Women 977 (54.3) 954 (53.0) 1015 (56.4) 1400 (63.6) 946 (52.6) 930 (51.7) 1003 (55.7) 1789 (59.6) 1157 (57.9)
Men 823 (45.7) 846 (47.0) 785 (43.6) 800 (36.4) 854 (47.4) 870 (48.3) 797 (44.3) 1211 (40.4) 843 (42.2)
Age group (years)
1829 551 (30.6) 625 (34.7) 508 (28.2) 434 (19.7) 549 (30.5) 618 (34.3) 508 (28.2) 732 (24.4) 518 (25.9)
3039 368 (20.4) 336 (18.7) 342 (19.0) 422 (19.2) 414 (23.0) 415 (23.1) 286 (15.9) 519 (17.3) 310 (15.5)
4049 398 (22.1) 411 (22.8) 317 (17.6) 433 (19.7) 319 (17.7) 334 (18.6) 315 (17.5) 527 (17.6) 326 (16.3)
5059 227 (12.6) 252 (14.0) 257 (14.3) 384 (17.5) 252 (14.0) 234 (13.0) 336 (18.7) 520 (17.3) 293 (14.7)
60+ 256 (14.2) 176 (9.8) 376 (20.9) 527 (24.0) 266 (14.8) 199 (11.1) 355 (19.7) 702 (23.4) 553 (27.7)
Living location
Urban 1393 (77.4) 1016 (56.4) 1323 (73.5) 1051 (47.8) 1000 (55.6) 820 (45.6) 687 (38.2) 2179 (72.6) 1396 (69.8)
Rural 407 (22.6) 784 (43.6) 477 (26.5) 1149 (52.2) 800 (44.4) 980 (54.4) 1113 (61.8) 821 (27.4) 604 (30.2)
Educational level
Completed higher education 325 (18.1) 323 (18.0) 396 (22.0) 796 (36.2) 428 (23.8) 320 (17.8) 332 (18.5) 662 (22.2) 484 (24.4)
Vocational/some higher education 395 (22.0) 339 (18.9) 621 (34.5) 555 (25.2) 630 (35.0) 376 (20.9) 557 (31.0) 1122 (37.6) 717 (36.1)
Secondary or less 1079 (60.0) 1129 (63.0) 783 (43.5) 848 (38.6) 742 (41.2) 1104 (61.3) 906 (50.5) 1204 (40.3) 783 (39.5)
Household economic situation
Good/very good 499 (27.8) 458 (25.8) 409 (22.8) 117 (5.4) 572 (31.9) 622 (34.6) 461 (25.9) 519 (18.0) 328 (16.5)
Average 970 (54.0) 926 (52.2) 1158 (64.5) 1105 (50.6) 1097 (61.1) 994 (55.3) 873 (49.0) 1885 (65.3) 1188 (59.9)
Bad/very bad 328 (18.3) 391 (22.0) 228 (12.7) 964 (44.1) 126 (7.0) 181 (10.1) 447 (25.1) 484 (16.8) 467 (23.6)
Current smokers
Women 19 (1.9) 6 (0.6) 134 (13.2) 85 (6.1) 88 (9.3) 55 (5.9) 45 (4.5) 288 (16.1) 141 (12.2)
Men 485 (58.9) 385 (45.5) 336 (42.8) 422 (52.8) 437 (51.2) 358 (41.2) 313 (39.3) 644 (53.3) 402 (47.9)
Response rates (60.1) (56.8) (48.1) (82.9) (47.3) (78.4) (74.8) (59.2) (60.1)