Table 2.
Distribution of socio-demographic characteristics and prevalence of cigarette smoking by intersectional positions in the stratified subsamples, 2014–2015 U.S. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study.
| Women |
Men |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sexual minority women (unweighted N = 1262) |
Heterosexual women (unweighted N = 12,798) |
P valuec |
Sexual minority men (unweighted N = 671) |
Heterosexual men (unweighted N = 13,167) |
P value*** | |||||
| <HS |
HS or more |
<HSa |
HS or moreb |
<HS |
HS or more |
<HS |
HS or more |
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| Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
Weighted % |
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| (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | (unweighted N) | |||
| 0.9 (221) | 4.6 (1,035) | 9.4 (1,508) | 85.1 (11,262) | 0.7 (108) | 3.3 (560) | 10.8 (1,818) | 85.1 (11,293) | |||
| Age | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||||
| 18–24 | 26.3 (120) | 27.6 (469) | 9.7 (430) | 11.6 (3,039) | 17.7 (46) | 22.4 (213) | 13.4 (568) | 13.1 (3,182) | ||
| 25–44 | 46.0 (69) | 48.1 (421) | 24.2 (416) | 33.4 (4,042) | 56.0 (38) | 39.0 (196) | 28.4 (504) | 35.0 (4,017) | ||
| 45+ | 27.7 (32) | 24.3 (145) | 66.1 (662) | 54.8 (4,179) | 26.3 (24) | 38.6 (151) | 58.4 (746) | 51.8 (4,093) | ||
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 23.2 (76) | 63.0 (584) | 42.2 (658) | 68.9 (6,942) | <0.001 | 21.9 (34) | 63.8 (322) | 45.6 (804) | 69.8 (7,061) | <0.001 |
| Hispanic | 60.2 (85) | 17.3 (190) | 39.4 (452) | 12.6 (1,747) | 66.7 (57) | 21.3 (136) | 33.6 (519) | 11.0 (1,680) | ||
| Non-Hispanic non-white | 16.6 (56) | 19.7 (255) | 18.4 (358) | 18.6 (2,435) | 11.3 (14) | 14.9 (90) | 20.8 (434) | 19.2 (2,390) | ||
| Smoking status | ||||||||||
| Current smokers | 25.0 (93) | 29.3 (434) | 23.2 (662) | 14.7 (3,478) | <0.001 | 20.4 (202) | 24.8 (39) | 33.8 (888) | 19.8 (3,745) | <0.001 |
| Non-smokers | 75.0 (128) | 70.7 (601) | 76.8 (846) | 85.3 (7,784) | 79.6 (358) | 75.2 (69) | 66.2 (930) | 80.2 (7,548) | ||
NOTE – The following variables had missing data. Individuals with missing data were excluded from analyses. Sexual orientation (1.4% missing); education (0.5% missing); smoking status 0.1% missing); gender (0.1% missing), race/ethnicity (4.0% missing).
a
<HS: with less than high school education;
b
HS or more: with high school education or more.
c
P values obtained using weighted chi-square analysis stratified by gender.