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. 2017 Feb 9;50(2):100–126. doi: 10.3961/jpmph.16.069

Table 2.

Overall age-standardized smoking prevalences, smoking prevalences by income quintile, and interquintile differences in smoking prevalence according to gender among 245 local districts of Korea

Variable Men
Women
Median SD Min Max IQR Median SD Min Max IQR
Overall 45.9% 3.6% 31.4% 56.1% 4.6%p 3.0% 1.1% 0.8% 7.4% 1.6%p
Income Q1 (lowest) 49.9% 4.0% 36.8% 59.8% 5.4%p 4.6% 1.9% 0.4% 13.0% 2.7%p
Income Q2 47.7% 4.2% 32.0% 58.3% 4.9%p 3.3% 1.5% 0.5% 8.0% 2.0%p
Income Q3 45.8% 4.4% 30.2% 56.8% 5.7%p 2.7% 1.2% 0.5% 7.5% 1.8%p
Income Q4 44.1% 4.4% 26.9% 56.1% 5.9%p 2.2% 1.1% 0.2% 6.5% 1.5%p
Income Q5 (highest) 41.8% 4.6% 24.6% 54.7% 6.4%p 1.8% 1.0% 0.2% 5.9% 1.2%p
Q1-Q5 7.4%p 4.1%p -3.7%p 20.2%p 5.9%p 2.7%p 1.6%p -1.4%p 9.5%p 2.0%p

Source from the Community Health Survey in Korea, 2008-2014.

SD, standard deviation; Min, minimum; Max, maximum; IQR, interquartile range.