Table 1.

Smoking prevalence of the longitudinal sample per country and wave.

	Smoking prevalence (%)				Absolute variation
	Wave 1	Wave 2	Wave 4	Wave 5	Wave 5–wave 1
	(2004–2005)	2007	2011	2013
Austria	21.3	19.7	21.2	15.8	−5.5
	(16.5, 26.0)	(15.1, 24.2)	(16.4, 25.8)	(11.5, 20.1)
Germany	18.8	16.6	16.9	16.7	−2.1
	(14.9, 22.6)	(12.9, 20.2)	(13.3, 20.4)	(13.1, 20.1)
Sweden	16.6	13.4	14.7	11.2	−5.4
	(13.6, 19.6)	(10.5, 16.2)	(11.8, 17.5)	(8.7, 13.6)
Netherlands	26.6	24.9	20.1	18.3	−8.2
	(23.1, 30.0)	(21.4, 28.3)	(16.8, 23.2)	(15.2, 21.4)
Spain	20.6	16.9	13.4	11.9	−8.6
	(16.9, 24.2)	(13.4, 20.3)	(10.1, 16.5)	(8.9, 15.0)
Italy	20.0	17.7	17.3	13.6	−6.4
	(17.2, 22.8)	(14.9, 20.3)	(14.6, 20.1)	(11.1, 16.1)
France	16.2	14.8	12.1	13.2	−3.1
	(13.4, 19.0)	(12.1, 17.3)	(9.7, 14.4)	(10.7, 15.6)
Denmark	28.7	24.4	23.5	20.0	−8.7
	(25.1, 32.3)	(20.9, 27.8)	(20.1, 26.9)	(16.8, 23.2)
Switzerland	18.4	19.3	22.0	18.7	0.2
	(14.3, 22.6)	(15.1, 23.5)	(17.7, 26.3)	(14.5, 22.7)
Belgium	15.1	14.6	14.1	13.4	−1.7
	(13.1, 17.1)	(12.6, 16.5)	(12.1, 16.0)	(11.5, 15.3)
Averagea	20.2	18.2	17.5	15.3	−5.0

Smoking prevalence was calculated using the weighted longitudinal sample; 95 confidence intervals in brackets.

^aUnweighted average of countries’ prevalence.