Table 2.
Percentages within each smoking status for THIN and the HSE 2008 after various adjustments
| Category | THIN |
HSE |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete records (%) | After MAR MI (%)*† | After MNAR MI (%)*‡ | Observed (%) | Reclassifying ex-smokers (%)§ | |
| Non-smoker | 55 | 53 | 57 | 53 | 57 |
| Ex-smoker | 17 | 22 | 23 | 26 | 22 |
| Smoker | 28 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 21 |
*Directly standardised using the HSE age distribution as standard.
†Imputed assuming that missing values are smokers, non-smokers or ex-smokers.
‡Imputed assuming that missing values are non-smokers or ex-smokers.
§Within each age group, reclassifying the optimum number of ex-smokers as non-smokers based on the distributions shown after MNAR MI.
HSE, Health Survey for England 2008; MAR, missing at random; MI, multiple imputation; MNAR, missing not at random; THIN, The Health Improvement Network.