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. 2015 Jul 26;2015:837804. doi: 10.1155/2015/837804

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample according to current tobacco use (n = 69,030).

Characteristics Categories n (%) Cigarette smoking (%) Bidi smoking (%) SLT use (%) Dual use (%)
Total 69,030 (100) 2,999 (2.8) 4,192 (5.7) 12,668 (20.5) 4,058 (5.3)

Gender Male 33,685 (51.7) 5.3 9.9 23.6 9.2
Female 35,345 (48.3) 0.1 1.2 17.2 1.1

Age (years) 15–17 2,878 (7.6) 0.1 0.2 8.3 0.9
18–30 23,092 (38.4) 1.4 2.2 17.4 4.4
31–45 25,543 (29.8) 2.7 7.4 23.8 7.0
46–60 11,758 (16.0) 2.7 11.5 25.3 6.2
61–75 4,773 (6.7) 1.7 10.8 29.2 5.7
76 and above 986 (1.5) 0.2 9.1 26.3 8.2

Area of residence Urban 27,437 (29.3) 4.4 3.7 14.1 3.5
Rural 41,593 (70.7) 2.2 6.5 23.2 6.0

Geographical regions North 13,976 (5.2) 4.7 6.6 4.9 2.2
Central 9,993 (32.5) 1.1 7.2 22.5 6.6
East 9,686 (21.1) 3.1 5.5 29.8 7.9
North-East 15,197 (3.6) 4.8 4.2 24.9 9.8
West 9,091 (14.9) 1.6 3.6 22.4 2.9
South 11,087 (22.7) 5.1 5.1 10.8 2.6

Educational attainment No formal education 18,735 (31.0) 1.4 8.3 27.5 6.0
Less than primary 7,983 (12.2) 2.9 9.4 24.9 8.2
Primary but less than secondary 19,511 (28.9) 3.2 4.8 19.8 5.4
Secondary and above 22,801 (28.0) 4.0 2.1 11.7 3.1

Wealth (asset quintiles) Poorest 13,998 (27.9) 1.1 7.6 30.2 7.8
Poor 16,033 (26.4) 2.1 6.5 23.0 5.3
Middle 11,571 (16.5) 3.4 5.8 17.6 4.4
Rich 13,830 (17.1) 4.4 4.1 13.0 4.0
Richest 13,597 (12.1) 5.3 1.6 7.7 2.6

Occupation Unemployed and unable 1,220 (1.9) 1.6 11.9 29.0 5.6
Unemployed and able 1,500 (2.1) 2.8 5.0 26.8 10.1
Housewife/retired/student 30,810 (43.2) 0.7 1.7 13.6 1.4
Self-employed 19,575 (28.5) 4.0 9.9 26.9 8.3
Nongovernment employee 11,923 (21.1) 4.7 8.0 25.4 8.7
Government employee 4,002 (3.2) 8.9 4.2 16.4 4.9