Levels of support for the licensing of tobacco retailers in Australia: findings from the National Drug Strategy Household Survey 2004-2016

Table 2 Socio-demographic and behavioural attributes of NDSHS respondents in 2016 and support for the implementation of a tobacco retailer licensing system

	Supporters (N = 13431)	%	Others^a (N = 6712)	%	P value^b
Jurisdiction of residence
NSW	3564	67.9	1684	32.1	< 0.001
VIC	3243	68.3	1508	31.7
QLD	2024	62.7	1206	37.3
WA	1529	67.1	749	32.9
SA	1239	66.4	626	33.6
TAS	647	69.1	290	30.9
ACT	608	68.8	276	31.2
NT	577	60.7	373	39.3
Age (years)
14–17	405	66.1	208	33.9	< 0.001
18–29	1661	63.0	976	37.0
30–49	4323	65.4	2290	34.6
50 years and over	7042	68.5	3238	31.5
Sex
Female	7479	68.9	3382	31.1	< 0.001
Male	5952	64.1	3330	35.9
SEIFA Quintile
1 (Most disadvantaged)	2380	63.2	1388	36.8	0.085
2	2663	65.6	1398	34.4
3	2624	66.2	1339	33.8
4	2827	67.5	1363	32.5
5 (Least disadvantaged)	2937	70.6	1224	29.4
Remoteness
Major Cities	9046	68.1	4245	31.9	0.017
Inner regional	2553	66.2	1305	33.8
Outer regional/Remote/Very remote	1832	61.2	1162	38.8
Smoking status
Daily smoker	807	32.5	1673	67.5	< 0.001
Current occasional smoker	214	40.5	314	59.5
Ex-smoker	3663	66.4	1854	33.6
Never-smoker	8747	75.3	2871	24.7
Alcohol consumption
Daily drinker	820	57.9	597	42.1	< 0.001
Weekly	4970	63.5	2857	36.5
Less than weekly	4774	67.8	2267	32.2
Ex-drinker (> 12 months)	1263	69.7	550	30.3
Never-drinker (full glass)	1604	78.4	441	21.6

Note: Numbers are unweighted. SEIFA: Socio-Economic Index for Areas. ^a Includes Oppose, Strongly Oppose and Neither Support nor Oppose. Excludes those who answered “Don’t know enough to say” (n = 2157). ^b Derived from Pearson’s chi-square tests for categorical variables

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