Person—tobacco smoking daily use status, code N
Data Element Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Tobacco smoking—ever daily use |
METEOR identifier: | 270329 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 |
Definition: | An indicator of whether a person has ever smoked tobacco in any form on a daily basis in their lifetime, as represented by a code. |
Data Element Concept: | Person—tobacco smoking daily use status |
Value Domain: | Tobacco smoking daily use status code N |
Value domain attributes | ||
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Ever-daily |
2 | Never-daily |
Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Collection methods: | The recommended standard for collecting this information is the Standard Questions on the Use of Tobacco Among Adults (1998) - interviewer administered (Question 1 and 5) and self-administered (Question 1 and 3) versions. The questions cover persons aged 18 years and over. |
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Comments: | Whether a person has ever smoked on a daily basis can be used to assess an individual's health risk from smoking and to monitor population trends in smoking behaviour. It can also be used to:
Where the information is collected by survey and the sample permits, population estimates should be presented by sex and 5-year age groups. Summary statistics may need to be adjusted for age and other relevant variables. It is recommended that in surveys of smoking, data on age, sex and other socio-demographic variables should be collected. It is also recommended that when smoking is investigated in relation to health, data on other risk factors including pregnancy status, physical activity, overweight and obesity, and alcohol consumption should be collected. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from Tobacco smoking - ever daily use, version 1, DE, NHDD, NHIMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.0 KB) No registration status |