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. 2021 Oct 25;32(1):126–132. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckab180

Table 3.

Prevalence of e-cigarette use in male and female students aged 11–17 years in the WHO European Region study sites with the latest available data from GYTS

Countries Boys
Girls
or study sites, arranged alphabetically Unweighted Crude Adjusted Unweighted Crude Adjusted
n weighted % weighted % n weighted % weighted % (95% CI)
(95% CI) (95% CI) (95% CI)
Albania 230 9.9a 9.3a 84 3.2a 3.4
(7.9–12.0) (7.5–11.2) (2.1–4.3) (2.3–4.5)
Bulgaria 236 12.6a 12.0a 190 8.9a 9.3a
(9.1–16.0) (8.8–15.3) (6.3–11.6) (6.8–11.8)
Croatia 282 14.7a 14.2a 144 6.8a 6.9a
(10.3–19.1) (10.8–17.6) (4.6–9.1) (5.0–8.8)
Georgia 114 17.5a 17.1a 43 6.4a 6.4a
(12.5–24.0) (11.6–22.7) (4.4–9.2) (4.1–8.7)
Italy 187 22.5a 22.6a 122 13.6a 13.3
(17.5–27.5) (17.4–27.8) (11.4–15.8) (11.1–15.6)
Kyrgyzstan 141 4.1a 4.0a 59 1.6a 1.5a
(2.8–5.4 (2.8–5.2) (1.0–2.3) (0.9–2.2)
Latvia 468 23.0a 22.8a 269 13.9a 14.0a
(20.7–25.2) (21.0–24.6) (11.5–16.3) (11.6–16.4)
Poland 736 31.5a 30.9a 560 21.8a 22.2a
(28.2–34.9) (27.6–34.1) (19.0–24.7) (19.3–25.1)
Romania 252 9.6a 9.4a 154 5.5a 5.5a
(7.8–11.5) (7.6–11.2) (4.4–6.5) (4.4–6.5)
San Marino 42 12.2 11.7 b b b
(8.1–16.3) (7.6–15.8)
Serbia 159 8.4a 8.2a 103 5.6a 5.8a
(6.2–10.6) (6.5–10.0) (4.2–7.1) (4.3–7.3)
Slovakia 189 9.7a 9.3a 121 6.2a 6.4a
(7.2–12.3) (6.9–11.8) (4.3–8.0) (4.6–8.3)
The Czech Republic 230 12.4 11.8 181 9.7 10.3
(9.3–15.6) (9.1–14.5) (7.7–11.7) (8.6–12.0)
The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina 488 16.9a 16.5a 172 6.5a 6.7a
(14.8–19.1) (14.6–18.4) (5.1–7.9 (5.3–8.2)
The Republic of Moldova 397 17.1a 16.8a 209 8.4a 8.5a
(14.7–19.5) (14.8–18.8) (6.0–10.8) (6.2–10.7)
The Republic of North Macedonia 158 6.0a 5.8a 50 2.1a 2.1a
(4.0–7.9) (4.1–7.4) (1.4–2.8) (1.5–2.8)
Ukraine 396 21.7a 21.1a 221 12.8a 13.3
(17.4–26.1) (17.0–25.2) (9.7–15.9) (10.3–16.3)

The prevalence estimates are adjusted by age, grade and pocket money.

a

Statistically significant difference between the estimates, P < 0.005.

b

The unweighted sample size was < 35, resulting in unstable estimates.