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. 2019 May 3;29(3):348–356. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2018-054702

Table 1.

Distribution of sociodemographic characteristics of the study population in all survey years, year before the partial ban (2013), years between the partial and comprehensive bans (2014–2015), and years after the comprehensive ban (2016–2017)

All survey years 2013 2014–2015 2016–2017
N observations 6202 1357 2443 2402
Gender
 Male 51.1 51.7 51.4 50.4
 Female 48.9 48.3 48.6 49.6
Age (mean, SD), years 14.5 (1.12) 14.6 (1.12) 14.5 (1.12) 14.5 (1.12)
 12 <0.1 0 0 0.1
 13 20.9 20.5 21.1 20.8
 14 31.8 30.2 31.4 33.1
 15 18.7 19.0 19.0 18.2
 16 28.2 30.0 28.0 27.3
 17 0.4 0.3 0.5 0.5
Ethnicity
 White 94.6 94.5 94.8 94.3
 Non-white 5.4 5.5 5.2 5.7
School year
 Second year 53.0 51.1 52.8 54.2
 Fourth year 47.0 48.9 47.2 45.8
Family Affluence Scale (FAS)
 Low 32.7 33.1 33.0 32.3
 Intermediate 32.7 32.6 32.4 33.0
 High 34.6 34.3 34.6 34.8
Smoking status
 Non-(current) smoker 95.4 94.7 96.0 95.3
 Current smoker 4.6 5.3 4.0 4.7
E-cigarette use
 Never used 59.9 84.6 68.5
 Used once or twice 12.5 12.1 20.0
 Current/past occasional or regular use 5.8 3.3 11.5
 2013 (missing) 21.9 100
Family smoking
 Non-smoking family members 61.2 56.0 60.1 65.3
 One smoking family member 22.5 24.7 23.0 20.6
 At least two smoking family members 16.3 19.3 16.8 14.1
Friend smoking
 None of them 54.1 55.1 60.3 47.3
 At least some of them 34.2 34.3 28.0 40.5
 Don’t know 11.6 10.5 11.7 12.2
Visits to supermarkets
 Rarely 21.4 20.0 21.4 22.3
 Sometimes 57.0 56.4 56.2 58.1
 Often 21.6 23.6 22.5 19.6
Visits to small shops
 Rarely 12.7 9.0 12.1 15.5
 Sometimes 44.1 41.8 45.1 44.4
 Often 43.2 49.2 42.8 40.1

Numbers represent percentages unless indicated otherwise.