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Person—tobacco smoking start age, total years N[NN]

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termTobacco smoking start age
METEOR identifier:Help on this term376322
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Health, Standard 19/11/2015
Definition:Help on this term

The age in years at which a person first smoked a full cigarette.

Context:Help on this term

Public health and health care

Data Element Concept:Person—tobacco smoking start age

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:Help on this termTotal
Data type:Help on this termNumber
Format:Help on this termN[NN]
Maximum character length:Help on this term3
Supplementary values:Help on this term
ValueMeaning
999Unknown/not stated
Unit of measure:Help on this termYear

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

Record age in completed years.

Collection methods:Help on this term

The recommended standard for collecting this information is the Standard Questions on the Use of Tobacco Among Adults (1998) - interviewer administered (Question 7) and self-administered (Question 4) versions. The questions cover persons aged 18 years and over.

Comments:Help on this term

Start-age may be used to derive duration of smoking, which is a much stronger predictor of the risks associated with smoking than is the total amount of tobacco smoked over time.

Where the information is collected by survey and the sample permits, population estimates should be presented by sex and age groups. The recommended age groups are: <10, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20-24, 25-29 and 30. 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.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Person—tobacco smoking start age (daily smoking), total years NN
  • Health, Superseded 19/11/2015
Supersedes Person—tobacco smoking start age, total years N[NN]
  • Health, Superseded 19/11/2015
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term

Prison dischargee smoking status clusterHealth, Superseded 28/04/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on a yes response to Person - ever smoked a full cigarette indicator, yes/no/not stated/inadequately described code N.

Smoking status cluster Health, Standard 28/04/2016

DSS specific attributes +

Conditional obligation:

Conditional on the person indicating that they have ever smoked a full cigarette.

DSS specific information:

In the Prisoner Health NBEDS 'tobacco smoking start age' refers to the age at which a person smoked their first full cigarette.

This data element is included in the Prisoner Health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators includes the indicator: Mean age at which prison entrants smoked their first full cigarette.


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