Table 1 Summary Statistics for Dependent and Independent Variables (N = 56, 644)
From: Factors affecting tobacco smoking in Ethiopia: evidence from the demographic and health surveys
Variables | Mean | S.D |
|---|---|---|
Dependent Variable | ||
 Smoking Tobacco | 0.04 | 0.18 |
Individual-level independent variables | ||
 Chewing khat in the 30 days preceding the survey | 0.17 | 0.38 |
 Sex | ||
  Male | 0.52 | 0.50 |
 2016 Survey Year | 0.55 | 0.50 |
 Age | ||
  15–19 | 0.22 | 0.41 |
  20–24 | 0.17 | 0.37 |
  25–29 | 0.17 | 0.38 |
  30–34 | 0.13 | 0.33 |
  35–39 | 0.12 | 0.32 |
  40–49 | 0.15 | 0.36 |
 Marital Status | ||
  Not Married | 0.33 | 0.47 |
  Married | 0.61 | 0.49 |
  Divorced | 0.06 | 0.24 |
 Education | ||
  No Education | 0.40 | 0.49 |
  Primary | 0.43 | 0.49 |
  Secondary | 0.11 | 0.31 |
  Higher | 0.07 | 0.25 |
 Occupation | ||
  Unemployed | 0.26 | 0.44 |
  Professional/Clerical/Sales/Skilled/Services | 0.24 | 0.43 |
  Agriculture | 0.47 | 0.50 |
  Unskilled Manual/Other | 0.04 | 0.18 |
Household-level independent variables | ||
 Household wealth quintile | ||
  Quintile 1 (Very Poor) | 0.17 | 0.37 |
  Quintile 2 | 0.18 | 0.39 |
  Quintile 3 | 0.19 | 0.39 |
  Quintile 4 | 0.21 | 0.40 |
  Quintile 5 (Very Rich) | 0.25 | 0.44 |
  Household members smoke inside the house | 0.12 | 0.33 |
 Religion | ||
  Orthodox | 0.46 | 0.50 |
  Catholic | 0.01 | 0.09 |
  Protestant | 0.22 | 0.41 |
  Islam | 0.30 | 0.46 |
  Traditional/Other | 0.02 | 0.13 |
Community-level independent variables | ||
 Place of residence | ||
  Urban | 0.22 | 0.41 |
 Administrative regions | ||
  Tigray | 0.32 | 0.47 |
  Affar | 0.01 | 0.09 |
  Oromia | 0.37 | 0.48 |
  Benishangul-gumuz | 0.01 | 0.10 |
  SNNP | 0.20 | 0.40 |
  Gambela | 0.01 | 0.06 |
  Eastern (Dire dawa, Harari and Somali) | 0.03 | 0.18 |
  Addis Ababa | 0.05 | 0.22 |
Distance of SNNP Region from Gambela | 0.73 | 2.07 |
Distance of Oromia from Dire Dawa | 1.84 | 4.74 |
Altitude distance relative to the sea level | 7.56 | 0.31 |