Table 1 Descriptive information, smoking prevalence and quit ratio for the study population pre- and during-GFC
Descriptive information | Smoking prevalence | Smoking cessation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-GFC | During-GFC | Pre-GFC | During-GFC | Pre-GFC | During-GFC | |
N | 34,981 | 31,979 | ||||
Age (mean, SD) | 48.0 ± 17.4 | 48.9 ± 17.5 | ||||
% of respondents | ||||||
Total population | - | - | 29.9 | 26.5 | 53.5 | 59.5 |
Gender | ||||||
Male | 48.3 | 48.5 | 33.8 | 29.8 | 52.1 | 58.8 |
Female | 51.7 | 51.5 | 26.3 | 23.5 | 55.0 | 60.4 |
Age | ||||||
18 – 30 years of age | 18.1 | 18.0 | 36.1 | 33.6 | 32.4 | 38.6 |
31 – 44 years of age | 26.7 | 24.0 | 32.9 | 29.3 | 43.7 | 49.6 |
45 – 64 years of age | 35.9 | 37.6 | 30.9 | 27.8 | 57.9 | 62.2 |
>64 years of age | 19.2 | 20.4 | 18.0 | 14.8 | 72.5 | 79.4 |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Ethnic Dutch | 85.7 | 89.5 | 29.4 | 26.4 | 54.8 | 60.4 |
Western Minorities | 8.2 | 7.3 | 33.8 | 26.8 | 49.9 | 60.9 |
Non-Western Minorities | 6.1 | 3.2 | 32.1 | 27.9 | 34.8 | 43.1 |
Household composition | ||||||
Couple, with children | 41.6 | 38.8 | 29.7 | 26.3 | 50.7 | 55.9 |
Couple, no children | 35.1 | 36.3 | 26.3 | 22.5 | 62.3 | 69.0 |
Single, with children | 17.2 | 18.3 | 33.7 | 30.6 | 45.9 | 53.0 |
Single, no children | 4.9 | 4.7 | 41.8 | 38.9 | 35.5 | 41.0 |
Other | 1.3 | 1.9 | 37.9 | 37.7 | 38.5 | 40.6 |
Education level | ||||||
High | 23.0 | 27.5 | 22.0 | 19.1 | 62.4 | 68.3 |
Middle | 37.2 | 32.6 | 31.0 | 28.3 | 51.8 | 57.0 |
Low | 39.8 | 39.9 | 33.4 | 30.2 | 50.5 | 57.2 |
Household income | ||||||
High | 33.3 | 33.3 | 25.2 | 21.7 | 60.4 | 66.0 |
Middle | 33.4 | 33.4 | 30.4 | 27.5 | 53.5 | 57.8 |
Low | 33.3 | 33.3 | 33.4 | 30.4 | 49.7 | 52.8 |
Neighbourhood deprivation | ||||||
Non-deprived | 86.8 | 87.5 | 29.4 | 25.8 | 54.3 | 60.6 |
Next-most-deprived (100 areas) | 9.4 | 8.9 | 33.0 | 30.7 | 49.2 | 54.9 |
Most-deprived (40 areas) | 3.8 | 3.5 | 34.5 | 34.1 | 45.9 | 45.9 |