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. 2018 Mar 5;28(3):133–139. doi: 10.2188/jea.JE20160184

Table 2. Characteristics of the analytical participants for secondhand smoke at the workplace/school (n = 1,003).

  Total Second hand smoke at workplace/school

None Once a week or less Several times a week Almost everyday Missing P-valuea
n n % n % n % n % n %
Age, years
 20–39 300 150 50.0 41 13.7 39 13.0 62 20.7 8 2.7 <0.001
 40–59 488 267 54.7 57 11.7 53 10.9 72 14.8 39 8.0  
 ≥60 215 103 47.9 25 11.6 23 10.7 18 8.4 46 21.4  
Sex
 Men 486 213 43.8 64 13.2 63 13.0 94 19.3 52 10.7 <0.001
 Women 517 307 59.4 59 11.4 52 10.1 58 11.2 41 7.9  
Education, years
 ≤9 80 20 25.0 9 11.3 10 12.5 16 20.0 25 31.3 <0.001
 10–12 445 211 47.4 50 11.2 60 13.5 75 16.9 49 11.0  
 ≥13 476 289 60.7 64 13.4 45 9.5 61 12.8 17 3.6  
 Missing 2 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 2 100.0  
Income
 Low 392 182 46.4 44 11.2 47 12.0 67 17.1 52 13.3 <0.001
 Middle 317 171 53.9 42 13.2 33 10.4 51 16.1 20 6.3  
 High 241 146 60.6 32 13.3 26 10.8 26 10.8 11 4.6  
 Missing 53 21 39.6 5 9.4 9 17.0 8 15.1 10 18.9  
Smoking
 Former smoker 342 159 46.5 50 14.6 37 10.8 60 17.5 36 10.5 <0.001
 Never smoker 661 361 54.6 73 11.0 78 11.8 92 13.9 57 8.6  
Total 1,003 520 51.8 123 12.3 115 11.5 152 15.2 93 9.3  

  mean (SD) mean (SD) mean (SD) mean (SD) mean (SD) mean (SD) P-valueb

Number of people in householdc 3.4 (1.2) 3.4 (1.2) 3.3 (1.1) 3.2 (1.3) 3.6 (1.2) 3.4 (1.2) 0.175
Knowledge of the adverse health effects of tobaccod 7.4 (3.3) 7.4 (3.4) 7.3 (3.0) 7.6 (3.3) 7.2 (3.4) 7.5 (3.7) 0.908

SD, standard deviation.

aP-value from chi-squared test.

bP-values from analyses of variance.

cMissing information (n = 114) were excluded.

dMissing information (n = 2) were excluded.