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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2021 Apr 8;69(3):447–456. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.02.011

Table 1.

Sample characteristics by year and country. N=35,490.

CANADA
ENGLAND
US
2017
(n=4038)
2018
(n=3845)
2019
(n=4135)
2017
(n=3995)
2018
(n=3874)
2019
(n=3493)
2017
(n=4095)
2018
(n=4034)
2019
(n=3981)
AGE GROUP
  16-17 48.0 (1566) 47.7 (1427) 47.4 (1738) 48.6 (1584) 48.4 (1149) 48.7 (1497) 50.3 (1772) 49.6 (2011) 49.6 (1657)
  18-19 52.0 (2420) 52.3 (2289) 52.6 (2274) 51.4 (2357) 51.6 (2658) 51.3 (1925) 49.7 (2246) 50.4 (1937) 50.4 (2215)
SEX
  Male 51.3 (1388) 51.0 (1706) 51.2 (1495) 51.2 (1674) 51.0 (1362) 51.2 (1205) 51.0 (1584) 51.0 (1407) 51.1 (1195)
  Female 48.7 (2598) 49.0 (2010) 48.8 (2517) 48.8 (2267) 49.0 (2445) 48.8 (2217) 49.0 (2434) 49.0 (2541) 48.9 (2677)
RACE/ETHNICITY
  White (only) 58.4 (2143) 47.5 (1774) 54.1 (2190) 79.4 (3090) 77.6 (2862) 76.1 (2572) 73.6 (2641) 73.7 (2451) 73.8 (2127)
  Other 39.8 (1768) 45.6 (1672) 43.1 (1706) 19.5 (811) 21.3 (902) 22.6 (801) 26.0 (1355) 25.6 (1464) 25.7 (1712)
  Don’t know/refused 1.8 (75) 7.0 (270) 2.8 (116) 1.1 (40) 1.2 (43) 1.2 (49) 0.5 (22) 0.7 (33) 0.5 (33)
CIGARETTE SMOKING 1
  Ever 31.9 (1209) 31.0 (1424) 31.1 (1505) 40.4 (1655) 40.1 (1598) 38.2 (1396) 32.3 (1341) 32.4 (1272) 33.5 (1539)
  Past 12 months 20.5 (767) 19.6 (966) 19.6 (1007) 29.4 (1222) 29.6 (1184) 26.8 (1003) 20.5 (836) 20.7 (811) 18.4 (956)
Past week 7.6 (266) 7.6 (450) 7.0 (424) 9.8 (404) 11.5 (430) 10.2 (411) 8.5 (333) 8.3 (317) 5.8 (402)
  Smoked ≥20 of the past 30 days 4.3 (139) 4.1 (239) 2.9 (184) 4.3 (180) 5.8 (204) 4.7 (195) 3.7 (145) 3.9 (147) 2.5 (185)
VAPING 1
  Ever 29.3 (1136) 33.2 (1445) 40.6 (1917) 33.7 (1344) 33.1 (1292) 36.1 (1346) 31.3 (1336) 33.1 (1354) 43.6 (1902)
  Past 12 months 21.0 (799) 25.4 (1124) 34.1 (1623) 24.1 (954) 24.0 (900) 27.1 (1007) 23.7 (991) 27.1 (1092) 35.4 (1574)
  Past week 5.2 (173) 7.5 (353) 12.3 (627) 4.6 (179) 4.6 (155) 6.9 (251) 6.4 (257) 10.3 (396) 12.6 (616)
  Vaped ≥20 of the past 30 days 1.8 (55) 2.4 (108) 5.7 (292) 1.5 (55) 2.0 (63) 2.7 (90) 2.2 (81) 3.8 (145) 6.7 (299)

Data are weighted % (unweighted n).

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Categories are not mutually exclusive.