Socioeconomic Gradients in Different Types of Tobacco Use in India: Evidence from Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009-10

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the sample according to current tobacco use (n = 69,030).

Characteristics	Categories	(%)	Cigarette smoking (%)	Bidi smoking (%)	SLT use (%)	Dual use (%)
Total		69,030 (100)	2,999 (2.8)	4,192 (5.7)	12,668 (20.5)	4,058 (5.3)
Gender	Male	33,685 (51.7)	5.3	9.9	23.6	9.2
	Female	35,345 (48.3)	0.1	1.2	17.2	1.1
Age (years)	15–17	2,878 (7.6)	0.1	0.2	8.3	0.9
	18–30	23,092 (38.4)	1.4	2.2	17.4	4.4
	31–45	25,543 (29.8)	2.7	7.4	23.8	7.0
	46–60	11,758 (16.0)	2.7	11.5	25.3	6.2
	61–75	4,773 (6.7)	1.7	10.8	29.2	5.7
	76 and above	986 (1.5)	0.2	9.1	26.3	8.2
Area of residence	Urban	27,437 (29.3)	4.4	3.7	14.1	3.5
	Rural	41,593 (70.7)	2.2	6.5	23.2	6.0
Geographical regions	North	13,976 (5.2)	4.7	6.6	4.9	2.2
	Central	9,993 (32.5)	1.1	7.2	22.5	6.6
	East	9,686 (21.1)	3.1	5.5	29.8	7.9
	North-East	15,197 (3.6)	4.8	4.2	24.9	9.8
	West	9,091 (14.9)	1.6	3.6	22.4	2.9
	South	11,087 (22.7)	5.1	5.1	10.8	2.6
Educational attainment	No formal education	18,735 (31.0)	1.4	8.3	27.5	6.0
	Less than primary	7,983 (12.2)	2.9	9.4	24.9	8.2
	Primary but less than secondary	19,511 (28.9)	3.2	4.8	19.8	5.4
	Secondary and above	22,801 (28.0)	4.0	2.1	11.7	3.1
Wealth (asset quintiles)	Poorest	13,998 (27.9)	1.1	7.6	30.2	7.8
	Poor	16,033 (26.4)	2.1	6.5	23.0	5.3
	Middle	11,571 (16.5)	3.4	5.8	17.6	4.4
	Rich	13,830 (17.1)	4.4	4.1	13.0	4.0
	Richest	13,597 (12.1)	5.3	1.6	7.7	2.6
Occupation	Unemployed and unable	1,220 (1.9)	1.6	11.9	29.0	5.6
	Unemployed and able	1,500 (2.1)	2.8	5.0	26.8	10.1
	Housewife/retired/student	30,810 (43.2)	0.7	1.7	13.6	1.4
	Self-employed	19,575 (28.5)	4.0	9.9	26.9	8.3
	Nongovernment employee	11,923 (21.1)	4.7	8.0	25.4	8.7
	Government employee	4,002 (3.2)	8.9	4.2	16.4	4.9