The case for gender considerate tobacco control policies in Albania

Table 1 Summary Statistics for the dependent and independent variables (N = 25,986)

Variables	Mean	Standard Deviation
*Dependent Variable*
Smoking Tobacco	0.219	0.414
Frequency of Smoking	18.318	0.791
*Individual-level independent variables*
Gender
Male	0.502	0.500
2017–18 Survey Year	0.468	0.499
Age
15–19	0.185	0.388
20–24	0.142	0.349
25–29	0.122	0.327
30–34	0.113	0.317
35–39	0.130	0.336
40–44	0.149	0.356
45–49	0.158	0.365
Marital Status
Not Married	0.385	0.487
Married	0.595	0.491
Divorced	0.020	0.141
Education
No Education/Primary less than 4- year	0.019	0.136
Primary 8 year	0.400	0.490
Secondary/Professional/Technical	0.405	0.491
University and Post-graduate	0.177	0.381
Occupation
Unemployed	0.459	0.498
Professional/Clerical/Sales/Services	0.215	0.411
Agriculture	0.110	0.313
Unskilled Manual/Other	0.061	0.238
Skilled Manual	0.155	0.362
Alcohol consumption
Non drinker	0.546	0.498
Moderate Drinker	0.435	0.496
Binge drinker	0.011	0.103
Health awareness on Smoking	0.981	0.137
*Household-level independent variables*
Household wealth quintile
Quintile 1 (Very Poor)	0.185	0.388
Quintile 2	0.198	0.398
Quintile 3	0.203	0.402
Quintile 4	0.202	0.402
Quintile 5 (Very Rich)	0.212	0.409
Religion
Orthodox	0.076	0.265
Catholic	0.107	0.309
Bektashi	0.015	0.123
Islam	0.784	0.412
Atheist	0.013	0.114
Other	0.005	0.072
*Community-level independent variables*
Place of residence
Urban	0.521	0.500
Administrative regions
Berat	0.047	0.211
Dibër	0.049	0.216
Durrës.	0.085	0.279
Elbasan	0.114	0.318
Fier.	0.104	0.305
Gjirokastër.	0.026	0.158
Korçë	0.075	0.263
Kukës	0.030	0.170
Lezhë	0.042	0.200
Shkodër.	0.095	0.294
Tiranë	0.282	0.450
Vlorë	0.052	0.222

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