Daily smoking: currently smokes cigarettes (manufactured or roll-your-own) or equivalent tobacco product every day.

Rates are directly age-standardised.

Analysis by remoteness and SEIFA Indicator of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage IRSD is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as percentage

95% confidence intervals and relative standard errors calculated for rates.

State and territory, by:

• Indigenous status
• remoteness
• SEIFA Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles

Disaggregations within individual jurisdictions are subject to data quality considerations. Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication.

Most recent data available for 2011 CRC report: 2007–08 (total population: NHS); 2008 (Indigenous status: NATSISS and NHS).

NO NEW DATA FOR 2011 REPORTING.

NATSISS or NATSIHS data may be used for analysis dependent upon which survey is most recent.

For further detailed analysis by Indigenous status see the National Indigenous Reform Agreement (NIRA) report.

National Healthcare Agreement: PB 02—By 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate (Baseline specification), 2011

NPA on Preventive Health

15(g): Reduction in state baseline for proportion of adults smoking daily commensurate with a two percentage point reduction in smoking from 2007 national baseline by 2011; 3.5 percentage point reduction from 2007 national baseline by 2013.