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. 2016 May 12;62(1):53–62. doi: 10.1007/s00038-016-0830-z

Table 1.

Socio-demographic variables, smoking status and network exposures, international survey of adolescents, 2013: percentages and numbers

% or mean (std) Number
City, Country (%)
 Namur, Belgium 19.0 2018
 Tampere, Finland 13.6 1443
 Hanover, Germany 12.9 1373
 Latina, Italy 19.2 2031
 Amersfoort, The Netherlands 17.6 1862
 Coimbra, Portugal 17.7 1877
Gender (%)
 Female 52.2 5531
 Male 47.8 5073
Age (years) 15.2 (1.0)
Father’s education (%)
 Low 21.5 2279
 Medium 31.9 3379
 High 29.1 3088
 Other unknown 17.5 1858
Mother’s education (%)
 Low 17.9 1901
 Medium 35.7 3788
 High 31.5 3341
 Other-unknown 14.8 1574
Subjective socio-economic ranking (%)
 5 or less 22.8 2423
 6 18.7 1980
 7 27.5 2918
 8 21.1 2241
 9–10 9.8 1042
Father not working last week (%) 90.5 9601
 No
 Yes 9.5 1003
Mother not working last week (%)
 No 80.6 8552
 Yes 19.4 2052
Family affluence ratio (%)
 ≤60 % 7.5 795
 61–90 % 28.9 3063
 91–120 % 34.5 3656
 >120 % 29.1 3090
House/flat ownership (%)
 Owner 81.7 8661
 Tenant-other 18.3 1943
Number of lowest socio-economic categories (%)
 0 32.6 3454
 1 28.9 3060
 2 19.3 2048
 3 11.6 1232
 4 5.5 586
 5 or more 2.1 224
Smoking status
 Tried smoking (%) 46.6 (47.9) 10,604
 Regular smoker (%) 16.9 (36.02) 10,604
 Standford nicotine dependence (score, 0–25) 2.2 (4.6) 10,604
Exposure to smoking
 Distance to all alters (°) 11.2 (4.3) 10,199
 Distance to smoking alters (°) 10.6 (4.5) 10,196
 Relative distance to smokers (%) 94.0 (12.2) 10,196
 Regular smokers in degree 1 (%) 17.0 (26.5) 10,196
 Regular smokers in degree 2 (%) 17.8 (22.9) 10,196
 Regular smokers in degree 3 (%) 17.5 (20.8) 10,196
 Smokers in household (numbers) 1.4 (1.3) 10,604
Coleman index of Homophily (−1, 1)
 Across parental education 0.3 (0.67) 10,196