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

Analysis by remoteness and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (IRSD) is based on usual residence of person.

Presented as a percentage.

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

2011–12 (previously supplied)—State and territory, by:

• sex by age
• Indigenous status (non-Indigenous) 
• remoteness (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure)
• 2011 Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage (IRSD) quintiles
• disability status

2011–12 (previously supplied)—Nationally, by:

• sex by remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure)
• 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles
• remoteness (ASGS Remoteness Structure) by 2011 SEIFA IRSD deciles

2012–13 (updated for full AATSIHS)—State and territory, by:

• Indigenous status (Indigenous only)

Some disaggregation may result in numbers too small for publication.

Most recent data available for 2015 National Healthcare Agreement (NHA) performance reporting: 2011–12 (total population, non-Indigenous: AHS); 2012–13 (Indigenous only: AATSIHS).

AATSIHS or National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey (NATSISS) data may be used for analysis dependent upon which survey is most recent.

National Healthcare Agreement: PB 3-Better health: by 2018, reduce the national smoking rate to 10 per cent of the population and halve the Indigenous smoking rate over the 2009 baseline, 2015

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.