Table 2.
Gender and age profile of achieved sample compared to proportion of past-year smokers who had made at least one attempt to quit smoking, surveyed between 2015 and October 2016, in the Smoking Toolkit Study [1]*
| Achieved sample | Target sampling frame | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | n | STS % | STS n | Target n | |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 50.0 | 20 | 51.4 | 1205 | 21 |
| Female | 50.0 | 20 | 48.6 | 1140 | 19 |
| Age (years) | |||||
| 16–24 | 12.5 | 5 | 19.1 | 448 | 8 |
| 25–34 | 20.0 | 8 | 26.0 | 609 | 10 |
| 35–44 | 30.0 | 12 | 19.4 | 455 | 8 |
| 45–54 | 17.5 | 7 | 17.6 | 412 | 7 |
| 55–64 | 15.0 | 6 | 10.8 | 253 | 4 |
| 65+ | 5.0 | 2 | 7.2 | 168 | 3 |
STS Smoking Toolkit Study data