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Table 1 Description of the participants in the two successive surveys-numbers of respondents (No.), response rate, percentage of men, mean age and standard deviation (SD), and percentage belonging to the higher occupational group

From: Smoking differences between employees in faculties of the University of Tartu, Estonia, and changes during the country's transition

Faculty/workplace	SURVEY I (1992)						SURVEY II (2003)
	No.	Response rate (%)	Men (%)	Age (yr)		Higher occupational group^†(%)	No.	Response rate(%)	Men (%)	Age (yr)		Higher occupational group^† (%)
				Mean	SD					Mean	SD
Administration	111	79	24	44	14	8	268	92	46	47	15	0
Biology & Geography	78	74	58	39	12	58	176	75	46	41	13	61
Economics & Business	55	81	53	42	13	69	66	83	35	45	14	65
Education	-	-	-	-	-	-	106	84	20	41	12	44
Exercise & Sports Science	55	86	47	45	12	72	48	80	40	42	13	71
Law	56	90	55	44	16	66	29	60	24	43	15	59
Library	164	77	11	40	13	1	192	82	14	46	13	2
Medicine	335	73	42	45	14	68	363	82	29	44	12	62
Mathematics & Computing	114	74	55	44	13	54	68	73	49	45	14	67
Philosophy	239	74	36	42	12	76	208	72	26	42	12	73
Physics & Chemistry	183	66	60	45	11	54	153	78	63	47	15	52
Social Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	113	74	33	38	12	58
Others or missing	51	73	35	42	14	9	327	74	46	46	15	35
Total	1441	75	41	43	13	52	2117	79	37	44	14	44

^† Professors and other teaching and research staff
- Data not applicable

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