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. 2014 Apr;107(100):162–170. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.016

Table 2.

Prevalence of smoking by gender, family affluence, school type and rurality, [n] % (s.e.); complete-case dataset, N = 2692.

Variable Tried smoking Current smoking Weekly smoking Daily smoking
Gender
Male [435] 34.3 (1.5) [172] 13.6 (1.1) [126] 9.9 (0.9) [100] 7.9 (0.8)
Female [606] 42.8 (1.6) [267] 18.9 (1.2) [200] 14.1 (1.0) [151] 10.7 (0.9)



Family Affluence Scale
Low FAS [373] 40.3 (1.8) [169] 18.3 (1.2) [130] 14.1 (1.2) [104] 11.2 (1.1)
Medium FAS [346] 38.5 (1.6) [153] 7.0 (1.4) [116] 12.9 (1.2) [86] 9.6 (1.1)
High FAS [322] 37.4 (1.7) [117] 13.6 (1.3) [80] 9.3 (1.0) [61] 7.1 (0.9)



School type
State school [1009] 39.1 (1.2) [421] 16.3 (0.9) [317] 12.3 (0.8) [248] 9.6 (0.7)
Independent school [32] 31.4 (4.9) [18] 17.6 (3.8) [9] 8.8 (3.2) [3] 2.9 (1.6)



Rurality
4 Cities [212] 32.8 (2.6) [88] 13.6 (1.5) [69] 10.6 (1.4) [48] 7.4 (1.3)
Other urban [243] 38.1 (2.3) [117] 18.4 (2.0) [90] 14.2 (1.5) [67] 10.5 (1.3)
Accessible towns [126] 44.7 (3.4) [45] 16.0 (2.5) [33] 11.7 (2.4) [29] 10.3 (2.3)
Remote towns [107] 42.6 (4.1) [38] 15.1 (2.3) [26] 10.4 (1.9) [22] 8.8 (2.0)
Accessible rural [144] 36.6 (2.2) [62] 15.8 (1.8) [41] 10.4 (1.7) [35] 8.9 (1.6)
Remote rural [209] 44.1 (2.5) [89] 18.8 (2.1) [67] 14.1 (1.7) [50] 10.5 (1.6)



Deprivation (SIMDa quintiles)
SIMD 1 (most deprived) [117] 36.9 (3.2) [53] 16.7 (2.4) [48] 15.1 (2.2) [39] 12.3 (2.2)
SIMD 2 [201] 48.6 (2.3) [86] 20.7 (2.2) [62] 14.9 (1.8) [52] 12.5 (1.8)
SIMD 3 [235] 38.3 (1.8) [116] 18.9 (1.6) [95] 15.5 (1.6) [71] 11.6 (1.4)
SIMD 4 [279] 39.5 (2.1) [106] 15.1 (1.6) [69] 9.8 (1.1) [51] 7.2 (1.0)
SIMD 5 (least deprived) [209] 33.0 (2.0) [78] 12.3 (1.2) [52] 8.2 (1.2) [38] 6.0 (0.9)

Clustering by school is accounted for in the calculation of SEs.

a

SIMD income domain.