Tobacco use and associated factors among adults in Ethiopia: further analysis of the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey

Table 1 Prevalence of indexed tobacco use with all common forms by gender in Ethiopia, 2011

Tobacco use items	Total number of respondents*	Male	Female	Both Sexes
Tobacco use items	n = 30,626	weighed prevalence 95 % CI	weighed prevalence 95 % CI	weighed prevalence 95 % CI
Cigarette	30,616	6.5(6.08–6.90)	0.2(0.15–0.29)	3.1(2.91–3.30)
Chew tobacco	30,599	1.3(0.12–1.50)	0.1(0.07–0.17)	0.7(0.57–0.76)
Snuff	30,599	0.7(0.54–0.81)	0.1(0.05–0.14)	0.4(0.29–0.43)
Shisha	30,599	0.2(0.11–0.25)	0.2(0.10–0.22)	0.2(0.12–0.21)
Gaya	30,599	0.3(0.22–0.40)	0.2(0.18–0.33)	0.3(0.21–0.33)
Others	30,599	0.2(0.12–0.27)	0.01(0.002–0.04)	0.1(0.06–0.13)
Index of scores	30,597	8.1(7.67–8.57)	0.8(0.62–0.89)	4.1(3.93–4.37)

*The total number of each type of tobacco use and their index are disproportionate because of multiple question items and missing values. The numbers are weighted using EDHS weighting factor variable

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