Table 1 Sample characteristics
From: Smoking trends among adolescents from 1990 to 2002 in ten European countries and Canada
Country | 1990 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % daily smoking | n | % daily smoking | n | % daily smoking | n | % daily smoking | |
Boys | ||||||||
Sweden | 582 | 9.5 | 596 | 9.7 | 605 | 8.6 | 614 | 5.5 |
UK | 1739 | 9.1 | 1251 | 13.4 | 1536 | 14.5 | 1249 | 10.2 |
Canada | 924 | 9.4 | 1066 | 15.0 | 1177 | 16.1 | 592 | 10.5 |
Switzerland | 629 | 6.3 | 658 | 9.5 | 930 | 15.8 | 754 | 12.9 |
Norway | 790 | 17.1 | 829 | 15.8 | 838 | 17.8 | 793 | 15.4 |
Finland | 485 | 22.7 | 845 | 17.3 | 743 | 15.7 | 858 | 16.4 |
Belgium | 496 | 10.1 | 1314 | 17.8 | 1089 | 21.9 | 1657 | 16.8 |
Poland | 789 | 12.7 | 698 | 13.8 | 855 | 18.5 | 1010 | 18.0 |
Hungary | 996 | 10.7 | 876 | 12.7 | 491 | 12.8 | 507 | 19.1 |
Austria | 546 | 14.1 | 1151 | 20.1 | 618 | 20.1 | 641 | 19.5 |
Latvia | 346 | 9.8 | 501 | 16.6 | 573 | 18.0 | 530 | 20.0 |
Total | 8322 | 11.4 | 9785 | 15.3 | 9455 | 16.5 | 9205 | 14.9 |
Girls | ||||||||
Poland | 692 | 4.3 | 705 | 6.1 | 782 | 9.8 | 1072 | 8.9 |
Canada | 1016 | 13.2 | 1139 | 19.8 | 1309 | 20.4 | 743 | 9.0 |
Switzerland | 608 | 2.1 | 736 | 12.3 | 924 | 15.8 | 751 | 13.0 |
Latvia | 668 | 1.8 | 788 | 5.7 | 774 | 9.9 | 655 | 13.1 |
Sweden | 541 | 13.7 | 562 | 13.0 | 541 | 16.1 | 606 | 13.7 |
UK | 1830 | 11.4 | 1437 | 17.5 | 1604 | 21.6 | 1228 | 16.7 |
Hungary | 1178 | 7.3 | 972 | 9.4 | 524 | 6.5 | 799 | 16.9 |
Finland | 449 | 20.3 | 823 | 13.9 | 772 | 15.7 | 870 | 18.0 |
Belgium | 445 | 13.4 | 1716 | 13.9 | 1113 | 22.3 | 1757 | 19.0 |
Norway | 846 | 15.7 | 793 | 14.9 | 811 | 20.5 | 818 | 19.9 |
Austria | 478 | 8.7 | 717 | 19.9 | 755 | 26.0 | 631 | 24.7 |
Total | 8751 | 10.1 | 10388 | 13.8 | 9909 | 17.8 | 9930 | 15.9 |