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Table 3 Main socio-demographic characteristics and smoking status of people participating to either ISAYA (1998–2000) or GEIRD (2007–2010) in four centers

From: Socioeconomic inequalities in smoking habits are still increasing in Italy

 

ISAYA

GEIRD

p-value

 

(n = 8931)

(n = 5162)

 

Centres

  

<0.001

  Verona

2166 (24.3%)

1746 (33.8%)

 

  Pavia

2444 (27.4%)

966 (18.7%)

 

  Turin

2266 (25.4%)

1205 (23.3%)

 

  Sassari

2055 (23.0%)

1245 (24.1%)

 

Sex

  

<0.001

  Men

4439 (49.7%)

2397 (46.4%)

 

  Women

4492 (50.3%)

2765 (53.6%)

 

Occupation

  

<0.001

  Clerk

3444 (38.7%)

2114 (41.3%)

 

  Housewife

786 (8.8%)

352 (6.9%)

 

  Manager

151 (1.7%)

90 (1.8%)

 

  Businessman

268 (3.0%)

153 (3.0%)

 

  Free-lancer

901 (10.1%)

570 (11.1%)

 

  Workman

1381 (15.5%)

777 (15.2%)

 

  Unemployed

564 (6.3%)

316 (6.2%)

 

  Student

864 (9.7%)

549 (10.7%)

 

  Retired

42 (0.5%)

20 (0.4%)

 

  Other job

498 (5.6%)

175 (3.4%)

 

Smoking habits

  

<0.001

 Never smokers

4356 (49.0%)

2809 (55.4%)

 

 Ex-smokers

1404 (15.8%)

915 (18.0%)

 

 Current smokers

3138 (35.3%)

1347 (26.6%)

 

Age (mean ± SD)

33.4 ± 6.8

34.8 ± 7.1

<0.001