Smoking (Hansard, 28 October 2002)

§ Dr. Evan Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the percentage smoking rates in each

Table 1: Prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults aged 16 and over, by socio-economic group, England 1990 to 2000
Percentage
		Unweighted¹	Weighted¹
	1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	1998	2000
Non-manual	24	23	21	22	21	22	23
Manual	35	33	32	34	32	33	31
Total	29	28	26	28	27	28	27
Weighted base (000s)					—	35,290	35,452
Unweighted base	15,002	15,663	14,447	13,381	12,295	—	11,829
¹ From 2000, ONS have weighted the data to compensate for under-representation of people in some groups (for example young men). The 2000 results are provided based on weighted data only. The results based on weighted and unweighted data are not directly comparable, so the results for 1998 have been presented as weighted, and as unweighted data.

Note:

In this table, the non-manual social-economic group category includes professionals, employers and managers, and intermediate non-manual and junior non-manual workers. The manual social-economic group category includes skilled manual (including foreman and supervisors) and own account non-professional, semi-skilled manual and personal service, and unskilled manual workers.

Source:

ONS General Household Surveys, 1990 to 2000.

Table 2: Prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults aged 16 and over, by standard region England, 1990 to 2000
Percentage
	Weighted¹	Unweighted¹	Weighted	Unweighted
Region	1990	1992	1994	1996	1998	1998	2000	Base 2000 (000)	Sample 2000
North	32	31	28	31	27	28	28	2,557	85
Yorkshire and Humberside	29	28	28	28	28	29	28	3,771	1,25
North West	33	30	27	30	31	32	30	4,472	1,52
East Midlands	28	25	26	26	26	27	25	2,895	99
West Midlands	29	26	24	28	28	29	26	3,925	1,30
East Anglia	26	27	24	25	22	23	26	1,733	60
Greater London	31	29	29	29	30	31	27	5,253	1,50
Outer Metropolitan area	29	26	25	25	24	25	25	8,201	2,80
Outer South East	28	28	27	28
South West	27	25	24	27	24	25	27	3,724	1,30
All England	29	28	26	28	27	28	27	36,531	12,15
¹ See notes to table 1 re: weighting.

Source:

ONS General Household Survey 2000, published as "Living in Britain", results from the 2000 General Household Survey. Available from the internet at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/lib/index.html.