Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the YIS 2006 sample
From: Adolescents' leisure activities, parental monitoring and cigarette smoking - a cross-sectional study
Current daily smokers | YIS 2006 sample | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 269) | (n = 3161) | |||
n | %* | n | %* | |
Age | ||||
13 yrs | 2 | 0.7 | 24 | 0.8 |
14 yrs | 166 | 61.7 | 2035 | 64.3 |
15 yrs | 96 | 35.7 | 1069 | 33.8 |
16 yrs | 4 | 1.5 | 24 | 0.8 |
17 yrs | 1 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.2 |
≥ 18 yrs | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.1 |
Sex | ||||
Female | 168 | 62.5 | 1606 | 50.8 |
Male | 101 | 37.5 | 1555 | 49.2 |
Ethnicity | ||||
NZ European | 90 | 33.5 | 1724 | 54.6 |
Māori | 134 | 49.8 | 654 | 20.7 |
Pacific Island | 25 | 9.3 | 271 | 8.6 |
Asian | 3 | 1.1 | 294 | 9.3 |
Other | 17 | 6.3 | 218 | 6.8 |
School decile | ||||
low | 114 | 34.5 | 849 | 26.9 |
mid | 108 | 41.4 | 1198 | 37.9 |
high | 47 | 24.1 | 1114 | 35.2 |