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Table 2 Smoking prevalence by agency, employee status, gender and education level

From: Smoking prevalence in the area of responsibility of the German Ministry of Defense — results of the employee survey in the context of occupational health management

Only smoking rate

Total

Age [n(%)]

P

<  30 years (n = 3799)

30–40 years (n = 3707)

40–50 year (n = 2725)

≥50 years (n = 3095)

All (n = 13,326)

4336 (32.5)

1644 (43.3)

1270 (34.3)

696 (25.5)

726 (23.5)

<  0.001

Agency

 Task forces (n = 4575)

2061 (45.0)

1173 48.4)

679 45.4)

143 (32.8)

66 (30.6)

<  0.001

 All other agencies (n = 8751)

2275 (26.0)

471 34.3)

591 26.7)

553 (24.2)

660 (22.9)

<  0.001

P

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

0.012

 

Status

 Soldiers (n = 9120)

3381 (37.1)

1538 (45.8)

1089 (38.0)

491 (27.9)

263 2(3.0)

<  0.001

 Civilian employees (n = 4206)

955 (22.7)

106 (23.9)

181 (21.5)

205 (21.2)

463 (23.7)

0.324

P

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

0.692

 

Gender

 Men (n = 10,370)

3538 (34.1)

1397 (45.5)

1053 (36.3)

570 (26.1)

518 (23.4)

<  0.001

 Women (n = 2956)

798 (27.0)

247 (34.0)

217 (26.8)

126 (23.5)

208 (23.6)

<  0.001

P

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

0.225

0.963

 

Education level

 Lower school-leaving certificate (n = 1226)

581 (47.4)

247 (62.2)

142 (54.0)

63 (41.7)

129 (31.1)

<  0.001

 Intermediate school-leaving certificate (n = 5767)

2230 (38.7)

923 (47.0)

663 (42.6)

315 (29.3)

329 (28.1)

<  0.001

 Higher education entrance qualification (n = 5911)

1397 (23.6)

431 (32.3)

427 (24.3)

297 (21.0)

242 (17.2)

<  0.001

 Other (n = 422)

128 (30.3)

43 (41.3)

38 (29.7)

21 (23.9)

26 (25.5)

0.031

P

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001

<  0.001