Skip to main content

Table 1 Proportion of South African Adults aged ≥ 16 years that reported having smoke-free rules at work, at home, and in their private cars, South African Social Attitudes Survey, 2010

From: Exposure to secondhand smoke and voluntary adoption of smoke-free home and car rules among non-smoking South African adults

Characteristics

Sample

Work

Home

Car

  

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

  

(n = 2,553)

(n = 2,995)

(n = 2,654)

Overall

3,112

63.9 (59.5-68.3)

62.5 (60.7-64.4)

70.6 (65.0-76.3)

Sex

    

 Male

1,783

63.2 (61.8-64.6)

61.2 (58.2-64.3)

69.7 (63.0-76.4)

 Female

1,311

65.0 (56.9-73.1)

64.5 (62.5-66.5)

72.1 (67.1-77.2)

Age, years

    

 16-24

618

65.3 (62.1-68.5)

61.6 (57.1-66.1)

68.9 (59.3-78.5)

 25-34

699

61.8 (53.7-69.9)

63.3 (57.7-68.9)

71.1 (67.3-74.9)

 35-44

656

60.4 (53.6-67.2)

60.8 (53.9-67.7)

69.5 (51.4-87.5)

 45-54

449

63.9 (57.0-70.8)

66.2 (60.1-72.4)

71.0 (61.4-80.6)

 ≥55

688

68.9 (60.0-77.8)

62.2 (58.9-65.5)

74.0 (58.1-90.0)

Education

    

 <12 years of schooling

1,683

65.0 (56.9-73.1)

60.6 (56.1-65.0)

71.5 (63.1-80.0)

 =12 years of schooling

880

62.6 (59.5-65.7)

64.3 (60.3-68.3)

68.8 (65.3-72.4)

 >12 years of schooling

476

61.9 (53.6-70.3)

65.8 (58.5-73.1)

72.7 (68.5-76.9)

Marital status

    

 Never married

1,337

63.9 (59.2-68.6)

63.5 (57.9-69.0)

71.4 (67.2-75.5)

 Separated, widowed, or divorced

489

66.6 (54.2-79.0)

64.5 (60.9-68.1)

70.9 (50.0-91.8)

 Married

1,204

62.7 (55.8-69.6)

60.3 (56.2-64.4)

69.5 (54.8-84.3)

Ethnicity

    

 Black African

1,763

65.5 (62.8-68.2)

65.1 (59.7-70.6)

74.4 (70.6-78.2)

 Colored

555

50.5 (43.8-57.2)

47.6 (33.4-61.9)

56.1 (41.9-70.3)

 Indian or Asian

374

52.6 (49.8-55.4)

65.4 (60.7-70.0)

65.2 (60.5-69.8)

 White

395

67.9 (67.4-68.4)

59.0 (58.8-59.3)

61.5 (60.3-62.8)

Residence type

    

 Urban

2,246

62.9 (60.9-64.9)

63.1 (60.2-66.0)

69.0 (69.0-69.1)

 Rural

866

65.8 (61.0-70.5)

61.5 (58.7-64.3)

73.7 (68.1-79.2)

Current Smoking of combustible tobacco products a

    

 Non smoker

2,410

70.5 (68.3-72.8)

71.3 (63.0-79.5)

78.4 (76.8-80.0)

 Current smoker

633

36.1 (25.7-46.5)

25.9 (22.4-29.5)

37.7 (31.8-43.6)

  1. Note: CI = confidence interval. Denominators for the various environments assessed included only participants whose responses indicated that they worked, had a home, or had a car in their household respectively. The proportion of missing/inapplicable responses excluded from the denominators for the respective environments included: work (17.6%; n = 559); home (3.2%; n = 117); and car (16.4%; n = 458).
  2. aCurrent smokers were respondents who reported daily or some days smoking of manufactured or hand-rolled cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or water-pipes.