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Table 2 Cross tabulation of demographic characteristics with smoking habits

From: “Do as we say, not as we do?” the lifestyle behaviours of hospital doctors working in Ireland: a national cross-sectional study

Characteristic

Non-smoker % (N)

Occasional smoker % (N)

Daily smoker % (N)

X2

Age

  ≤ 30

86.8 (302)

10.9 (38)

2.3 (8)

14.97*

 31–40

90.9 (479)

7 (37)

2.1 (11)

 

 41–50

93.1 (432)

4.5 (21)

2.4 (11)

 

  > 50

90.7 (353)

5.9 (23)

3.3 (13)

 

Sex

 Male

88 (778)

8.6 (75)

2.6 (23)

8.83**

 Female

92.6 (796)

5 (43)

2.4 (21)

 

Work Grade

 Consultant

92.7 (873)

4.8 (45)

2.5 (24)

13.77***

 Trainee

88.2 (703)

9.3 (74)

2.5 (20)

 

Sex and Work Grade

 Male (C)

91.5 (520)

6.2 (35)

2.3 (13)

12.93**

 Male (T)

83.8 (258)

13 (40)

3.2 (10)

 

 Female (C)

94.4 (352)

2.7 (10)

2.9 (11)

8.01*

 Female (T)

91.2 (444)

6.8 (33)

2.1 (10)

 

Marital status

 Married or cohabitating

92.4 (1125)

5.1 (62)

2.5 (31)

21.57***

 Single

86.2 (381)

11.1 (49)

2.7 (12)

 

 Divorced or separated

88.5 (46)

11.5 (6)

0 (0)

 

Nationality

 Irish

90.9 (1360)

6.7 (100)

2.4 (36)

1.14

 Non-Irish

88.9 (216)

7.8 (19)

3.3 (8)

 

Specialty

 Anaesthetics

87.9 (217)

9.7 (24)

2.4 (6)

28.98*

 Emergency

81.2 (69)

12.9 (11)

5.9 (5)

 

 Medicine

92.9 (407)

5.3 (23)

1.8 (8)

 

 Obstetrics & Gynaecology

86.9 (93)

8.4 (9)

4.7 (5)

 

 Ophthalmology

91.4 (32)

5.7 (2)

2.9 (1)

 

 Paediatrics

93.9 (155)

6.1 (10)

0 (0)

 

 Pathology

92 (127)

4.3 (6)

3.6 (5)

 

 Psychiatry

92.8 (259)

4.3 (12)

2.9 (8)

 

 Surgery

88.4 (214)

9.1 (22)

2.5 (6)

 

Mean Hours Worked/Week

  < 40

88.5 (108)

6.6 (8)

4.9 (6)

6.31

 40–80

91 (1287)

6.7 (95

2.2 (31)

 

  > 80

86.9 (113)

8.5 (11)

4.6 (6)

 

Total

90.6 (1576)

6.8 (119)

2.5 (44)

 
  1. *P value <.05 **P value <.01 ***P value ≤ .001