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Table 3 Summary statistics of the prevalence of smoking, tobacco price, tobacco tax and control variables for all countries (2010–2016)

From: The effects of tobacco taxation and pricing on the prevalence of smoking in Africa

Variable

Obs

Mean

Std. Dev.

Min

Max

Smoking

168

13.417

5.776

3.9

26.9

Price

168

3.471

2.352

1.01

14.49

Tax

168

37.41

16.132

6.42

79.71

GDP per cap.

168

2.667

3.306

−10.862

18.066

Urbanization

168

3.572

1.408

−1.912

6.177

Death rate

168

8.578

2.114

4.656

14.27

FDI

168

5.29

8.059

−1.032

57.838

  1. Smoking prevalence and tax are in percentages; price is in international dollars (at PPP); GDP per cap., Urbanization and FDI are in percentages, while death rate is per 1000 people