Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the PATH USA youth aged 12–17 years who were non-susceptible to cigarette use and never cigarette users at their first wave of study participation (2013–2016).

Total		Non-susceptible to cigarette use at first wave of participation		Never cigarette users at first wave of participation
Total		n=11,022; N^*=20,687,132	Weighted % (SE)	n= 15,776; N= 29,562,216	Weighted % (SE)
Wave of entry into study	Wave 1	7,879 14,392,886	69.6 (0.31)	11,769 21,448,494	72.5 (0.18)
	Wave 2	1595 3,139,371	15.2 (0.24)	2,021 3,984,220	13.5 (0.13)
	Wave 3	1,548 3,154,875	15.3 (0.34)	1,986 4,129,501	14.0 (0.21)
Age: Weighted mean (SE)		13.5 (0.012)		13.7 (0.007)
Sex	Boys	5,655 10,544,567	51.0 (0.32)	8,081 15,056,608	51.0 (0.15)
	Girls	5,356 10,116,398	49.0 (0.33)	7,686 14,484,302	49.0 (0.15)
	Missing Values	11 26,167		9 21,307
Race/Ethnicity	Hispanic	2,218 3,096,942	15.2 (0.20)	4,016 5,789,647	19.8 (0.13)
	Non-Hispanic Black	1,565 2,954,460	14.5 (0.26)	2,223 4,180,658	14.3 (0.14)
	Non-Hispanic Other^*	1,162 2,372,797	11.7 (0.27)	1,595 3,221,903	11.0 (0.24)
	Non-Hispanic White	5,873 11,908,783	58.6 (0.46)	7,798 16,104,763	55.0 (0.29)
	Missing Values	204 354,150		144 265,245

N: estimated national population sizes

Non-Hispanic Other: Non-Hispanic Asians, Multi-race, etc.

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PATH restricted file received disclosure to publish: February 10, 2020; February 17, 2020; February 28, 2020; March 06, 2020; May 01, 2020; December 16, 2020. United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse, and United States Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. Center for Tobacco Products. Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study [United States] Restricted-Use Files. ICPSR36231-v13.AnnArbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], November 5, 2019. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36231.v13.