Table 1.
Weighted descriptive statistics for all 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in 30-day smoking prevalence sample, monitoring the future, 2013–2015. results shown are using imputed data (m = 10)
| Sample for 30-day smoking prevalence | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | Grade 10 | Grade 12 | |
| Unweighted N | 35 716 | 35 622 | 31 869% |
| Variables | Wt. % | Wt. % | Wt. |
| Past 30-day smoking prevalence | |||
| Yes | 4.10% | 7.05% | 13.27% |
| No | 95.90% | 92.95% | 86.73% |
| Race/ethnicity | |||
| non-Hispanic white | 42.96% | 53.81% | 53.37% |
| non-Hispanic black | 14.17% | 12.26% | 11.28% |
| Hispanic | 24.57% | 16.41% | 19.19% |
| non-Hispanic Asian | 4.69% | 5.01% | 4.40% |
| Another race/ethnicity | 13.61% | 12.52% | 11.75% |
| Sex | |||
| Female | 48.81% | 49.28% | 49.48% |
| Male | 51.19% | 50.72% | 50.52% |
| Education, parents’ highest | |||
| <=High school | 28.65% | 25.38% | 28.71% |
| Some college | 14.94% | 15.96% | 19.97% |
| College or greater | 56.41% | 58.66% | 51.32% |
| 4-month depreciated | |||
| <25 percentile | 20.23% | 27.36% | 26.03% |
| 25–50 percentile | 29.74% | 25.28% | 26.54% |
| 50–75 percentile | 27.25% | 23.90% | 20.98% |
| >75 percentile | 22.78% | 23.46% | 26.45% |
| Living arrangement | |||
| Neither mother or father in household | 3.76% | 3.81% | 5.73% |
| Lives with father | 3.52% | 3.94% | 5.26% |
| Lives with mother | 20.08% | 18.47% | 22.33% |
| Lives with father and mother | 72.64% | 73.77% | 66.68% |
| Employment, mother’s current (grade 8/10) | |||
| Not employed | 22.01% | 22.63% | — |
| Part time | 19.00% | 16.81% | — |
| Full time | 59.00% | 60.55% | — |
| Employment, mother’s current (grade 12) | |||
| None | — | — | 14.27% |
| Sometimes | — | — | 19.00% |
| Most of time | — | — | 18.03% |
| All the time | — | — | 48.70% |
| High school program | |||
| College prep. | 35.33% | 47.38% | 50.24% |
| General | 17.25% | 24.68% | 35.69% |
| Vocational/technical | 5.14% | 4.07% | 3.54% |
| Other/do not know | 42.28% | 23.87% | 10.54% |
| Census region | |||
| Northeast | 18.61% | 22.17% | 19.45% |
| Midwest | 21.42% | 23.43% | 22.29% |
| South | 36.36% | 29.01% | 33.58% |
| West | 23.62% | 25.39% | 24.68% |
| College plans (grade 12) | |||
| No, probably/definitely | — | — | 16.95% |
| Yes, probably | — | — | 23.32% |
| Yes, definitely | — | — | 59.72% |
| State cigarette price (mean $ (SD), range) | 6.46 (1.44), 4.49–10.42 | 6.36 (1.35), 4.49–10.42 | 6.48 (1.48), 4.58–10.42 |
| State unemployment (mean % (SD),range) | 0.06 (0.01), 0.03–0.09 | 0.06 (0.01), 0.03–0.09 | 0.06 (0.01), 0.03–0.09 |
| County poverty (mean % (SD), range) | 0.15 (0.05), 0.05–0.38 | 0.15 (0.06), 0.04–0.37 | 0.15 (0.05), 0.04–0.31 |
| County % black (mean % (SD), range) | 0.12 (0.11), 0.00–0.63 | 0.13 (0.14), 0.00–0.59 | 0.11 (0.10), 0.00–0.48 |
| County % Hispanic (mean % (SD), range) | 0.19 (0.17), 0.00–0.66 | 0.16 (0.14), 0.00–0.57 | 0.20 (0.17), 0.00–0.66 |
| County % college grad (age 25≥) (mean % (SD), range) | 0.31 (0.10), 0.09–0.60 | 0.31 (0.11), 0.10–0.73 | 0.30 (0.10), 0.10–0.60 |
SD: standard deviation, wt: weighted.