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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Tob Control. 2012 Jan 3;22(1):52–58. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050139

Table 2.

Characteristics of International Tobacco Four Country Survey sample by country (n=4048)

Canada USA UK Australia
Sex
 Female 55.1% 58.3% 56.6% 53.2%
 Male 44.9% 41.7% 43.4% 46.8%
Age, years
 18–24 12.6% 11.9% 6.3% 14.5%
 25–39 31.8% 38.8% 29.6% 35.7%
 40–54 35.8% 36.7% 35.7% 35.5%
 55+ 19.9% 24.5% 28.3% 14.3%
Education
 High school diploma or lower 45.0% 41.2% 64.5% 66.6%
 Technical, trade school, community college or some university 41.4% 44.9% 23.0% 20.5%
 University degree or higher 13.6% 13.8% 12.5% 12.9%
Income
 Under $30 000/under £15 000 (UK) 31.1% 38.1% 32.8% 29.5%
 $30 000–$59 999/£15 001–£30 000 38.1% 37.8% 36.8% 35.7%
 $60 000 and over/£30 001 and over 30.8% 24.1% 30.5% 34.8%
Ethnicity
 White/English only 88.7% 79.4% 95.1% 87.2%
 Other/mixed 11.3% 20.6% 4.9% 12.8%
Mean cigarettes per day (SD) 16.0 (9.65) 17.7 (11.5) 16.6 (9.7) 18.0 (12.4)
Mean time to first cigarette (min) (SD) 72.2 (140.8) 71.9 (142.2) 73.6 (141.8) 83.7 (154.7)

Measures of quitting and definitions of quitting outcome.