Parental smoking and child poverty in the UK: an analysis of national survey data

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Prevalence of smoking by gender and marital status in routine and manual workers (%)

	Base smoking prevalence by gender (before marital status weighting)	Smoking prevalence marital status weighting	Rate of smoking by sex with marital status weighting
Single man	33	1.35	44.6
Married man	33	0.7	23.1
Cohabitating man	33	1.65	54.5
Single woman	32	1.35	43.2
Married woman	32	0.7	22.4
Cohabitating woman	32	1.65	52.8

Note: Weightings are the ratio of prevalence by marital status to prevalence in the general population e.g. 27/20 = for single smokers.

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