Socioeconomic patterning of vaping by smoking status among UK adults and youth

Green, Michael J.; Gray, Linsay; Sweeting, Helen; Benzeval, Michaela

doi:10.1186/s12889-020-8270-3

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Sociodemographic patterning of vaping among youth (aged 10–15) by smoking status^a

From: Socioeconomic patterning of vaping by smoking status among UK adults and youth

	Sociodemographic Characteristics		Vaping Among Never Smokers			Vaping Among Ever Smokers			All Vaping
	N	%	Yes N	%	P-Value	Yes N	%	P-Value	Yes N	%	P-Value
Total	3291	100	42	1.4	–	70	28.4	–	112	3.4	–
No Vaping	3179	96.6
Vaping	112	3.4
Never Smokers	3044	92.5							42	1.4	< 0.001
Ever Smokers	247	7.5							70	28.4
Male	1629	49.5	25	1.7	0.146	43	34.7	0.032	68	4.2	0.018
Female	1662	50.5	16	1.1		27	22.2		44	2.7
Age 10	520	15.8	4	0.8	< 0.001	0	1.6	0.069	4	0.8	< 0.001
Age 11	596	18.1	0	0.0		0	0.2		0	0.1
Age 12	561	17.0	4	0.7		0	0.4		4	0.7
Age 13	493	15.0	5	1.1		8	28.3		13	2.7
Age 14	588	17.9	12	2.5		28	32.8		41	6.9
Age 15	533	16.2	15	3.6		34	30.4		49	9.2
England	2831	86.0	38	1.4	0.838	59	27.8	0.412	97	3.4	0.607
Wales	111	3.4	2	1.9		2	24.7		4	2.8
Scotland	263	8.0	2	0.8		5	26.1		7	3.0
Northern Ireland	86	2.6	1	1.3		4	56.3		5	5.9
White UK	2704	82.2	33	1.3	0.437	62	28.7	0.668	96	3.5	0.420
Ethnic Minority	587	17.8	8	1.5		8	27.5		17	2.8
Couple Parents	2474	75.2	20	0.9	< 0.001	43	29.4	0.686	63	2.6	< 0.001
Single Parent	817	24.8	21	3.0		27	27.0		49	6.0
Parents Never Smokers	1175	35.7	13	1.1	0.193	23	33.3	0.505	35	3.0	0.126
Ex-Smoking Parent	1301	39.5	14	1.2		26	25.1		40	3.1
Current Smoking Parent	815	24.8	15	2.1		22	28.5		37	4.5
No Parental Vaping	2903	88.2	36	1.3	0.711	55	27.5	0.495	91	3.1	0.021
Parental Vaping	388	11.8	6	1.6		15	32.5		21	5.5
Degree	1739	52.8	17	1.1	0.445	34	30.4	0.737	51	2.9	0.331
A-Level or equivalent	676	20.5	11	1.8		13	25.6		24	3.6
GCSE or equivalent	782	23.8	12	1.7		22	29.3		34	4.4
No Qualifications	94	2.9	1	1.2		2	17.7		3	3.3
Managerial/Professional	1347	40.9	4	0.3	< 0.001	21	24.9	0.275	25	1.8	< 0.001
Intermediate	489	14.9	9	1.9		13	35.7		21	4.4
Routine	539	16.4	14	2.8		17	38.9		31	5.7
Not employed	916	27.8	15	1.8		20	23.4		35	3.8
Highest Income Quartile	473	14.4	1	0.3	0.002	7	26.1	0.586	9	1.9	< 0.001
2nd Quartile	850	25.8	4	0.5		13	22.2		17	2.1
3rd Quartile	1094	33.2	17	1.6		21	31.2		37	3.5
Lowest Income Quartile	875	26.6	19	2.4		29	30.9		48	5.5

^aData weighted for attrition and over-sampling, and results averaged across 25 imputed datasets

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