Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the Doetinchem Cohort Study (DCS) and the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) for men and women separately
From: Generation shifts in smoking over 20 years in two Dutch population-based cohorts aged 20–100 years
Age of generation at baseline of the DCS | 20-29 y | 30-39 y | 40-49 y | 50-59 y | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
N (%) | 467 (43) | 618 (57) | 941 (46) | 1084 (54) | 926 (49) | 957 (51) | 658 (47) | 732 (53) |
Age | 24.9 | 24.9 | 34.6 | 34.4 | 43.8 | 43.7 | 54.0 | 54.1 |
(3.0) | (2.8) | (2.9) | (2.8) | (2.6) | (2.8) | (2.8) | (2.9) | |
Level of education, N (%) | ||||||||
• Low | 244 (52) | 302 (49) | 463 (49) | 694 (64) | 542 (59) | 724 (76) | 403 (61) | 601 (83) |
• Middle | 173 (37) | 251 (41) | 257 (28) | 207 (19) | 189 (20) | 110 (12) | 112 (17) | 66 (9) |
• High | 52 (11) | 65 (10) | 217 (23) | 180 (17) | 190 (21) | 119 (12) | 142 (22) | 61 (8) |
Smoking, N (%) | ||||||||
• Current | 186 (40) | 237 (38) | 347 (37) | 409 (38) | 310 (34) | 318 (33) | 204 (31) | 182 (25) |
• Ex | 59 (12) | 108 (18) | 283 (30) | 335 (31) | 361 (39) | 244 (26) | 307 (47) | 137 (19) |
• Never | 224 (48) | 273 (44) | 309 (33) | 339 (31) | 253 (27) | 395 (41) | 147 (22) | 413 (56) |
Packyears | 3.3 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 6.6 | 13.4 | 7.9 | 17.9 | 7.6 |
(5.2) | (3.9) | (8.5) | (7.3) | (13.5) | (10.1) | (16.7) | (12.4) | |
Age of generation at baseline of the LASA | 55-59 y | 60-69 y | 70-79 y | 80-85 y | ||||
Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | Men | Women | |
N (%) | 153 (48) | 168 (52) | 355 (47) | 400 (53) | 305 (48) | 326 (52) | 118 (46) | 136 (54) |
Age | 57.6 | 57.7 | 64.9 | 65.0 | 75.1 | 75.0 | 82.5 | 82.7 |
(1.4) | (1.4) | (2.9) | (2.8) | (2.9) | (2.9) | (1.5) | (1.5) | |
Level of education, N (%) | ||||||||
• Low | 68 (45) | 98 (58) | 161 (46) | 270 (67) | 173 (57) | 224 (69) | 76 (64) | 99 (73) |
• Middle | 51 (33) | 52 (31) | 125 (35) | 102 (26) | 85 (28) | 81 (25) | 21 (18) | 23 (17) |
• High | 34 (22) | 18 (11) | 68 (19) | 28 (7) | 47 (15) | 21 (6) | 21 (18) | 14 (10) |
Smoking, N (%) | ||||||||
• Current | 64 (42) | 45 (27) | 110 (31) | 75 (19) | 96 (31) | 36 (11) | 28 (24) | 12 (9) |
• Ex | 77 (51) | 61 (36) | 218 (61) | 135 (34) | 180 (59) | 90 (28) | 86 (73) | 28 (21) |
• Never | 11 (7) | 62 (37) | 27 (8) | 190 (47) | 29 (10) | 200 (61) | 4 (3) | 96 (70) |
Packyears | 27.4 | 11.7 | 27.4 | 8.0 | 25.2 | 4.9 | 25.0 | 2.5 |
(26.0) | (19.1) | (27.0) | (15.2) | (25.5) | (13.1) | (24.8) | (11.6) | |